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DA COTTON PICKAS explores the trials and tribulations of Southern cotton plantation workers following the abolition of slavery in America. Our film uncovers the sharecropping arrangements between cotton pickers and the landowners who denied them their wages, taking you through their journey as they left their homes and even their families to travel west and north. We meet minister and activist Bishop Henry C. Williams, born in 1934 on a sharecropper’s plantation in Alabama, who has spent decades fighting for reparations. Through his story we learn the sad state of economics awaiting so many migrants when they finally arrived to what had been sold to them as the promise land. This project confronts the ghost of slavery that still haunts America to this day and the unexpected ways