Travis Garner/2009 Mountain Workshops

A migrant laborer strips dark-fired tobacco leaves from a stalk on the Kirksey farm of Danny Cunningham. Cunningham employs four farm hands and a crew of eight Hispanic laborers to harvest crops grown on some 4,500 acres. He raises corn, soybeans and 42 acres of tobacco, dark-fired for use in snuff and chew.

The irony...

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