Let the Ancestor Speak: What Bibb County's Income Drop Tells Us About Reconstruction (Posted March 13, 2026)

Bibb income halved 1860-1870: war loss, labor changes.

2010: $28,366 household, poverty 30.6%.

Insight: Reconstruction failed many; Bibb's cotton economy crumbled.

Share stories. Poor House in the census tomorrow.

The ancestors are still talking… recovery uneven.

Lana Reed 

@ltas411 

Let the Ancestor Speak