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Mississippi Moments Podcast
MS Moments 261 - Jerry Clower: Furnish Merchants
Released: Mar 9, 2011
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."