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Young oyster shuckers, Josie, six years old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, ten years old, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1912. Work began at 4 AM. 

Here are some interviews with descendants of child labourers who were photographed during Lewis Hine project including a couple working as oyster schuckers.

“When I was about the same age as she was in the picture, she told me that when she was shucking oysters, she would pick out oysters from a big pile, but the older girls and women would hit her on the back of the hand with the back of an oyster knife if she picked up a big oyster, because the bigger oysters would fill up their cans faster, and they would get more money. Even in my grandmother’s last years, she was always scratching the backs of her hands, because they never completely healed.”

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This is the future Conservatives want

Are we not going to talk about how the ten year old and the six year olds are THE SAME SIZE? There’s some serious growth stunting going on there…

I was thinkin that part ^^^^

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