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A health care staff Annie Moore looks at the empty shelves at a pantry for free food distribution inside a local hospital in Fayette, Jefferson County, Mississippi on September 28, 2020. - All that remains of the cotton plantation that stood there, in the middle of Jefferson County, is a fragile building hidden in thick vegetation. But the impact of slavery on this territory of the South of the United States remains visible. With 85% of its population composed of African-Americans, this rural Mississippi county has the highest proportion of black inhabitants in the entire country. It is also one of the poorest: the average household income barely exceeds $20,000 per year, a third of the national average. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)