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black quarter

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black quarter: see blackleg blackleg or black quarter, acute infectious disease of cattle, less often of sheep, caused by an organism of the genus Clostridium. It is characterized by inflammation of muscles with swelling and pain in the affected areas.
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visited Marks, Mississippi in Quitman County and wept at the squalor he encountered on Cotton Row, a muddy, unpaved street in the town's black quarter.
Welcome to Quitman County, population 10,490 by Conklin, Paul / U.S. Catholic
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