MS Moments 261 - Jerry Clower: Furnish Merchants - a podcast by USM Center for Oral History
from 2011-03-09T16:56:52
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For many years, farmers and share croppers relied on credit supplied by furnish merchants. Humorist Jerry Clower of Liberty, Mississippi explains how this early lending system functioned and the history of the expression "making groceries."
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