March, 1939 to 1939

Collier, Florida

african americans, Zora Hurston, Turpentine, Black Labor

Zora Neale Hurston’s expedition to a Turpentine camp in Cross City, Florida was much more exciting and informative than it sounds. Hurston described the start of her trip in an essay she wrote on her experience there as, “going up some roads and down some others to see what Negroes do for a living.” 1  Hurston exclaimed that to an outsider, these African Americans worked at a Turpentine still,...