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Biloxi and the seafood canneries
1880
Biloxi, Mississippi
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Biloxi called itself the seafood capital of the world on the strength of oysters and shrimp packed by hand, and brought in Croatian and Bohemian families and then Cajun labour to do it. Children as young as five shucked in the canneries, and the photographs Lewis Hine took here in 1911 were used to argue for the first federal child labour laws.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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