Negroes In Collective Farms Of Southern Caucasus -- The Negress Ksenia Abashidze, (left) a collective farm woman, picking corn in the plantation of the N. Lakoba collective farm, located in the Ochemchir District of the Abkhazian Autonomous Soviet Republic, a part of Soviet Georgia.The few Negro families living in this district are the descendents of slaves brought here about 300 years ago for labor on the tobacco plantations of Turkish feudal lords who then ruled the Caucasus. At that time Sukhumi, which is now the chief city of Soviet Abkhazia, was an importat slave trading center on the Black Sea. December 1, 1936. (Photo by Markov, Soyuzphoto).

Negroes In Collective Farms Of Southern Caucasus -- The Negress Ksenia Abashidze, (left) a collective farm woman, picking corn in the plantation of the N. Lakoba collective farm, located in the Ochemchir District of the Abkhazian Autonomous Soviet Republic, a part of Soviet Georgia.The few Negro families living in this district are the descendents of slaves brought here about 300 years ago for labor on the tobacco plantations of Turkish feudal lords who then ruled the Caucasus. At that time Sukhumi, which is now the chief city of Soviet Abkhazia, was an importat slave trading center on the Black Sea. December 1, 1936. (Photo by Markov, Soyuzphoto).

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