Lucille Chalifoux, an American mother living in poverty, puts her four children up for sale in order to pay the rent and avoid eviction from her home, hiding her face in shame from the press. 1948

Two of the children, Rae and Milton Chalifoux, were sold to a family on August 27, 1950, who bought them as slaves and forced them to work from sunrise to sunset in the fields. The other two, Lana and Sue Ellen Chalifoux, were also sold, although they had better luck with another family, as did the baby their mother was expecting, a fifth child, who was also sold to a wealthy family.

The Chalifoux family, who, as I said, were facing eviction from their home, had a husband who was an unemployed truck driver and a wife who was a housewife. Both were forced to sell their children to pay the rent and call the press to denounce their situation.

While they spread propaganda against communism, it was in the US and under capitalism that children were sold for just a few dollars.

65 years later

Two of the girls, Sue Ellen (left) and Rae Chalifoux (right), reunited in 2013, 65 years later, immortalizing this photo.

Rae even kept the dress she wore when the press took that famous photo.

The hidden history of capitalism and its miseries.

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2022910029087613232#m