| 单词 | field hand |
| 例句 | I thought of walking behind the mule like our field hands. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But the strangest thing about Momma, the thing that made some of the neighbors smile tightly and alienated all the rest, is Momma's rumored penchant for field hands—the stronger, the darker, the better. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He said the water boy had just brought news to the field hands, and it had been passed from one to the other until it reached him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the expression on his face when he had beaten the field hand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z His body was lean and strong, like any field hand his age, but he carried his strength lightly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He said cotton brought thirteen cents a pound in 1837, and when it was high, the slave traders paid as much as a thousand dollars for prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Right after you left, she knocked the devil out of a field hand who was runnin’ you down.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The field hands knew he was dead before the overseer knew it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Slaves went before them, carrying red banners to warn olf field hands and poachers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Grandma told me a story of how a field hand got bit once. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried husking corn and blistered my slow clumsy hands while experienced field hands sped through the work effortlessly, enjoying themselves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z After the work, there were great quantities of food—chicken, pork, vegetables, corn bread, fruit—better food than the herring and corn meal field hands usually saw so much of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z My memory of a field hand being whipped suddenly seemed to have no place here with me at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Old Rit drew the baby closer to her side, thinking, field hand, hot sun and long rows of cotton and the overseer’s whip. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They chose a big orle, so big that the strongest field hands bent their backs under its weight. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And field hand that she was, strengthened by hard work, she would probably have given me the beating she thought I deserved. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Dressed in this fashion, she did the rough hard work of a prime field hand. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You and Skyla are near old enough to be grandparents, and there you are, shacking up like a couple of teenaged field hands.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I would have taken better care of her than any field hand could. I wouldn’t have hurt her if she hadn’t just kept saying no.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It was the field hands, coming in to eat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He wore the battered clothes of a field hand and an ancient broadcloth coat highly polished by age and wear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me of home, the way the field hands would sing during the worst of the work, the hard things like hoeing or tilling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Coarse country people looking for a field hand. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I never know how to treat you. You confuse everybody. You sound too white to the field hands—like some kind of traitor, I guess.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes old people and children lounged there, or house servants or even field hands stealing a few moments of leisure. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But as to checking on the field hands now, I see no gain for us in that. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The auction had started that morning with the sale of prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His business was keeping the field hands in line. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Surely some of them, some of those young prime field hands, glossy skinned, supple-jointed, surely some of those strong young men must have reached the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Neighbors come out to chat after long hours of work as bricklayers and field hands. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Once I was called over to the slave cabins—the quarter—to watch Weylin punish a field hand for the crime of answering back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Watch your English. You sound like a field hand.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she would hear the sound of running feet, sound of curses, the thud, thud of blows, falling on the head and back of the last field hand out of the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Connelly had promoted the field hand to boss, to one of the overseer’s enforcers, Moses had set himself up as a broker of cabin intrigues. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In actuality it had probably been a manual laborer, a field hand, with aspirations for something better. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There were two field hands in the cookhouse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She pondered over the shocking contrast between the life of a field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland, and the life she had known and enjoyed in Philadelphia and in Cape May, New Jersey. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Rose Hill mostly grew tobacco, which Momma and a couple of the bigger field hands would ride into town to trade for cloth and other essentials. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z That way she would never become a common field hand. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She carried water to the field hands, and listened to their rhythmical singing, watched how the movement of their hands, their bodies, was paced to the rhythm of the song. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was planting time, and the backs of the field hands were bent as they leaned over the long rows, sun glistening on their bare backs. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the children of the field hands, children too young to be of much use in the fields themselves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The work was the same, but I wasn’t just somebody’s field hand. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the field hands...They just didn’t know me, didn’t know how loyal I might be to Rufus or Margaret, didn’t know what I might report. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z After all, no one else could claim the plantation’s mistress as their momma and an unknown field hand as their poppa. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One time I asked Papa didn’t he think his daddy was lazy, leaving all the work to field hands or sorry no-count tenants and croppers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The field hands knew indigo, tobacco—cotton, of course—but corn was its own beast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Everyone attended—field hands, house servants, even the indifferent Evan Fowler. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Or with looks—he had a lopsided frog face and oddly thin arms for a field hand—or with luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Minty would never be a field hand if she had anything to do with it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As I thought of the field hand, I felt strangely disoriented. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She’d never know the bite of the overseer’s whip, never know what it felt like to hold a hoe in rough, work-hardened hands, never give off the choking stink of the field hand. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the Georgia sun, Connelly had recited verses while scourging field hands for infractions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The men — Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory and James Townsend — were field hands, forced by the Confederacy to build an artillery emplacement at Sewell’s Point. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z He was born in Trinidad, the grandson of indentured field hands from India. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Historians think that Nat Turner, a minister and enslaved field hand, was holding it when he was captured two months after leading a rebellion against slaveholders in Southampton County, Va. As Nat Turner led a bloody slave rebellion, he carried this bible 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The white guests sipped their drinks on the portico of the manor house as African-American field hands bent to their labors. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z Its figures were modeled on his father and other laborers and field hands he knew personally. Emigdio Vasquez, pioneer in Chicano art movement, dies at 75 “People criticize slavery,” she said, “but how else are you going to run an operation that requires four thousand field hands?” I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z Here is a perfect example: I learned in middle school and high school that Eli Whitney was a freed slave whose cotton gin invention helped end slavery because the machine could out-work field hands. Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The folk artist Clementine Hunter, a descendant of slaves, lined an outbuilding near her home in Melrose, La., with colorful murals of church processions, dancers, newlyweds and field hands harvesting cotton and pecans. Augusta Savage’s Rural Escape and Clementine Hunter’s Murals 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z I confess that I had Bush cast more in the role of the Calvin Candie-ish plantation owner, smirking from his veranda while the field hands do the work "Yeah," says Foxx. Jamie Foxx: 'Django Unchained is supposed to make you angry' 2013-01-17T15:45:00Z One of our most prolific writers is Desiree Holt, a 76-year-old who in her time has worked as a field hand and a summer fishing guide – and was once a competitive skier. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z Liza, his city-born wife who is new to the neo-plantation, once rides out to the woods where the field hands live in abject squalor. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In Mr. Rembert’s rippling panels, crowds of colorfully dressed field hands pick cotton, and men swing hammers on a chain gang. The Outsider Art Fair 2020: 7 Must-See Exhibits 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z So basically everyone knew her as a mother, a cook, a field hand. A Word With: Robert Wilson and Sheryl Sutton: Robert Wilson’s ‘Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter’ 2013-01-22T23:00:01Z “Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats — the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms — while the field hands are left with the scraps.” Bill Moyers signs off — for the final time, he swears 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z It’s about the dead: the field hands, housekeepers, single mothers, sharecroppers, brick workers, postmen, shoe repairmen, Pullman porters and maids — Mrs. Obama’s relatives all, plain people who owned no property and left no writings. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The First Lady's Family 2012-06-15T18:13:58Z In their life before the militias these men worked grinding lives as fruit pickers and field hands, factory laborers and mechanics — much like many of the members of their Knights Templar rivals. California-raised kids vs. Mexico’s violent cartel 2014-01-18T22:00:00Z Her empathetic portraits of African-American field hands shine a light on a system of peonage that predated and outlasted the 1930s. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They believed Africans were physically better suited to hard labor than Europeans were, and Africans could also be enslaved for a lifetime, ensuring a constant supply of field hands. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He said he had little trouble finding field hands, including migrants who move from farm to farm with each season. Farmworkers Union, a ’60s Liberal Icon, Seeks a California Revival 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z “My first memory of her cooking her fried chicken was seeing my grandfather and the paid field hands walking up out of the tobacco fields midday hot and sweaty,” reads the submission. Perspective | How a great recipe hunt will help preserve, and contextualize, history 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Bakersfield sees itself that way too, a place of battering and renewal; a town of Merle Haggard songs, passing trains and the muddy boots of field hands. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Above all, field hands resented the return to gang labor under the strict gaze of an overseer and complained that many planters still used the whip. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Her disdain for pretension, practiced by Black people in power, what Hurston called “bookooing,” is all over her essay about the NAACP, where she rants about the divide “between house servants and field hands.” Review | Zora Neale Hurston was once forgotten. A new book reminds us why her voice must be heard. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z His field hands pulled the season’s last remaining fruit from the spiny branches above. In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z In January 1867, nearly all of Mercer’s field hands abandoned Laurel Hill, reported the white overseer there, “and we cannot blame them, in view of the tempting offers made to them.” Are we witnessing a ‘General Strike’ in our own time? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z He dug ditches, picked cotton and worked as a field hand. Reforms are emptying Louisiana’s prisons. This group makes sure no one goes back. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Most field hands got Sundays off and a holiday between Christmas and New Year’s Day, but house servants were always on duty. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His father, who is listed as not being able to read or write, was a farmer and Lawrence is listed as a field hand in the 1880 census. Analysis | Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale. 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Pomegranates died on their branches as field hands waited for the airstrikes and mortars and bursts of machine gun fire to stop. In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z In September, the Board of Supervisors approved $1,500 grants paid out from the county’s general fund and private donations to field hands who had lost work. Column: What Oxnard can teach L.A. and the rest of California about COVID-19 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z As rough and rowdy as many of the oil field hands I worked with were, these men knew oil. Opinion | The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Large planters could allow a few men and women to become specialized artisans or house servants, or to supervise other slaves, but most male and female plantation workers were field hands. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 2019, an estimated 1 percent of the field hands were from Britain. Prince Charles wants furloughed workers to pick berries. Farmers wonder if Brits are up to the task. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z By the Department of Agriculture’s estimates, about half the country’s field hands — more than a million workers — are undocumented. Opinion | A Former Farmworker on American Hypocrisy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z But the Romanian field hands who typically help harvest the asparagus can’t get into the country. Coronavirus border closures are threatening Europe’s food supply 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “A Gathering of Old Men” weaves together multiple viewpoints, including those of a group of old black field hands, to tell a tale of subjugation on a Louisiana plantation. Ernest J. Gaines, Novelist of ‘Miss Jane Pittman,’ Dies at 86 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Those up for auction were the field hands, carpenters, wheelwrights, plowmen, rice and cotton pickers, cooks, women, children, infants, lame, blind, aged, unsound, parents, lovers, and siblings. It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’ 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z A third is a middle-aged woman who occupies the cell vacated by Asia Bibi, the Pakistani field hand who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010 and acquitted by the Pakistan Supreme Court twice. Pakistan’s most famous accused blasphemer escaped to Canada. Others remain on death row. 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z She was traveling with her mother, Maria Romero, 48, and said she hardly earns enough to survive working as a field hand in orange groves and palm oil plantations. New migrant caravan leaves from Honduras 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The land barons did not want labor organizers anywhere near their field hands. In Orange County, land of reinvention, even its conservative politics is changing - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In his time off, he plays the role of “field hand,” helping his wife tend to the donkeys, cleaning up their messes and doing “whatever she needs done.” Kansas couple helps homeless donkeys find families 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The mobs were out to break a month-long strike by sugar plantation field hands, many of them former slaves. Searching for mass grave of victims in 1887 racial massacre 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z He says mobs went door-to-door for more than two hours, shooting unarmed blacks to break a strike by sugar plantation field hands. Searching for mass grave of victims in 1887 racial massacre 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z There is also a long history of immigration to Costa Rica, with the first Chinese arriving in 1855 to work as field hands. Why Costa Ricans are being paid to marry Chinese migrants 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z On Nov. 23, 1887, white mobs in Lafourche Parish went door to door for more than two hours, shooting unarmed blacks, to end a monthlong strike by sugar plantation field hands. Local government to honor victims of 1887 massacre of blacks 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “The field hands would have in all likelihood slept in their quarter sites in cabins some distance from the fancy, octagonal retreat house,” says Gannaway, director of programs, marketing and grants at Poplar Forest. Visitors spend the night at Poplar Forest for slave project 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The violence ended a strike by sugar plantation field hands, including former slaves and their children. In Louisiana, efforts to honor victims of a racial massacre 130 years ago 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z There’s also a dwindling supply of field hands in Mexico. Trump's promise to ramp up deportations spreads fear — among California businesses 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z She and three older brothers were essentially field hands for their father, chopping tobacco and baling hay. Pat Summitt, legendary Tennessee basketball coach, dies at 64 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The lawsuit filed last month on behalf of the foreign field hands seeks class-action status and compensation for more than 50 who worked at state Sen. Brent Jackson’s Autryville farm. NC lawmaker sued as farm workers claim some wages unpaid 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z A lanky and dour-faced field hand, with the inevitable name of Bill, was in charge of this process—and therefore the four of us. On the Range Where the College Cowboys No Longer Play 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z “There was a hierarchy of slave quarters, from larger, well-constructed structures for the house slaves to log and frame structures for the field hands,” Pogue said. Rare stone slave quarters unearthed at Belvoir 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z He did allow that one of Ángel’s other sons was not enshrined here—he’d been born to a field hand—and that he was still alive and living nearby. The News in Fidel and Raúl Castro’s Home Town in Cuba 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Each rig represents about 100 jobs, from roughneck field hands to maintenance workers, and the current rig count is down 85, or 5 percent, from a recent peak in late 2014. U.S. Oil Producers Cut Rigs as Price Declines 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z He needs about 50 field hands for harvest time. New Mexico's dwindling chile crop has farmers anxious 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z On the other hand, they’re working like field hands or coal miners. Are The Techno Riche Really Ruining San Francisco? Yes, Says Rebecca Solnit 2013-12-31T11:15:17Z The most radical change in recent decades, however, may be the way field hands reproduce plants. The Tequila Curse 2013-10-17T23:54:14Z The murals around the room portray a field hand, mill workers, an engineer and hard hats on the job — “Resources of America.” Building Blocks: High on Landmark Panel’s List: A Post Office Lobby, Adorned and Ennobling 2013-08-21T14:52:58Z That is because agricultural immigrant visas are mainly aimed at providing short-term work stints of six to 10 months to accommodate farmers needing field hands to help with seasonal crops. Immigration bill pins big hopes on dairy cows 2013-06-03T05:16:37Z Salaries of about $650 a month are five times the salaries of field hands in China, she said. In Russia, Chinese-Run Farms Solve Each Side’s Needs 2012-09-10T18:08:23Z Fresh fields were bought and added to the farm, and servants and field hands were employed to gather in the harvests that filled their home with abundance. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z No other artist has rivalled Mount in the delineation of the life of the American farmer and his negro field hands, always looked at from the humorous side. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z She had been hired out as a field hand. Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools 2012-02-08T03:00:23.060Z It is not, however, necessary to teach a slave-mechanic or field hand, or even "a prime woman," to read or write, in order to make him or her a profitable investment. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z In the case of Prussian field hands, it is generally 54 per cent. greatest in the province of Saxony, viz., Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z As often as the journals launch forth upon the discovery of some fresh gold-field, the field hands forthwith strike work, and make off to the "diggings." Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Construction workers, landscapers and field hands have stopped showing up for work, and large numbers of Hispanic students have been absent from public schools. US appeals court temporarily blocks Alabama from checking immigration status of students 2011-10-14T19:15:01Z We have had to put her daughter Perzelia in the kitchen, and she is only a field hand. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z They were so close to the water, and there were so many field hands, that any complicated system of irrigation was not required. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The wife of an English field hand, without children, earns 1/3 more than one with children. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z And then there was the health of the negroes—a very important item where a twenty-year-old field hand was worth $1,500 in gold. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z “Are you looking for any field hands?” called a cheery voice. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z Yes, but all the field hands had laid off, too, because of the ghost. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z They climbed trees together, they scrambled for the same apple, they laughed, and shouted, and played till the horn at the farmhouse called the field hands to dinner. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z It was too bad surely, but if I had had one I don't know what I would have done, as without one I ate like a field hand. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z George explained that he was a field hand and had to work hard most of the time. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Many a worthy priest has found, to his cost, that any attempt to Christianize the field hands was the worst possible mistake he could make in their owners' eyes. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z From my kitchen fastness I could hear the peals of laughter as Mary pretended to be a field hand, brought into the dining-room for the first time, to wait on the table. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z If the master is pious, the house servants alone attend family worship, and frequently few of them, while the field hands have no attention at all. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z The first work I done in slavery was totin' water and dinner to the field hands, in gourd buckets. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z His reminiscences of slavery days, when he was a field hand, are an incongruous combination of stories of severe cruelty and free Saturday afternoons, Sunday holidays and happy festivals of cornshucking and community cotton picking. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z After William was freed he supported himself by hiring out as a field hand and by making and selling baskets. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z The field hands went off to work, the uninvited guests melted away, and the house servants took up their tasks where we had left off. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z I made a better nurse dan most girls, so jest kept on at it till I was old enough to be a field hand. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z My folks was house servants and lived a little better'n the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Thus brought up as a child among the Kimball children, and because of her duties as a house servant, she mingled little with the field hands and acquired none of their dialect. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Mr. Snow live out in de country and have a big place and a lot of field hands and us live in cabins. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z At this time, when cotton brings a good price, a good "field hand" cannot be bought for less than eight hundred dollars, if a male; if a female, for six hundred. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Yes'm I remembers before de war, I remember being a water-boy to de field hands before I were big enough to work in de fields. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z But Laura, our field assistant, is here for the long haul, and she will soon be joined by a seasoned field hand, Sara Alvarez, returning from a few weeks out of the forest in Spain. Scientist at Work: Preparing to Leave the Amazon, and Telling Tales of Parasites Past 2011-02-03T13:00:13Z Her mother worked in the house, and when the field hands were working helped carry water out to them in buckets, each one getting a swallow or two a piece. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z De field hands stay up in de big barn and shuck corn on rainy days. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z The third and lowest class consists of those slaves, who are termed "field hands." The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z He had made a brief explanation to one of his father’s field hands, and the man was started on horseback down the branching road. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z They did come into contact with the servant Negro, the field hand, the common labourer, who make up, of course, the great mass of the race. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z She was larger, taller, and stouter than Aunt Nellie, younger in years, less refined,—a field hand,—one who had drunk deeply of the terrible cup which slavery had held to her lips. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z De field hands works early and late and often all night. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z This has been, till within a few years, the general condition of "field hands" in this country, though there have been exceptions on some plantations highly honourable to their proprietors. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z At dark one of the field hands came to the tower with a warm supper sent by Tom’s mother. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z She works as a field hand making the equivalent of a dollar a day. On Eve of Kenyan Election, Still Dealing with the Last 2010-08-03T20:13:00Z The hundred negroes—cook, steward, chambermaid, house and field hands, old and young—all left their work and followed the army. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The White House, he wrote, "shouldn't treat the people who supported Halter's senatorial bid like field hands by talking and acting like plantation owners." National progressives are wrong about Blanche Lincoln 2010-06-17T00:10:00Z Companies there are scrambling to train workers, many experienced only as field hands, to build cars, appliances and computer parts. For Brazil, It's Finally Tomorrow 2010-03-29T14:59:00Z Arrange the stage with a log cabin surrounded by sunflowers in the background and a cotton field in foreground, and have the singers costumed as field hands. Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Of course they are never field hands, but are employers and laborers in the dairy business, in poultry farming, and in the raising of vegetables and fruit. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey Beyond is the sugar-house, and the smoking chimney, and the ox carts, and the field hands. To Cuba and Back The field hands raised tobacco; and it was with this commodity that the planter bought the silks and laces which clothed his wife and daughters when they appeared en grande tenue. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) It had once been the private yacht of an American copra planter on Basilan who, alas, had been murdered by his Moro field hands. The Pirates of Shan You'll be an invaluable fellow to have on a plantation; you can doctor the field hands, and, may be, if you behave yourself, get a chance to prescribe for the family. Cudjo's Cave But, when his culture fits him for something more than a field hand or a mechanic, he is to have an open door set wide before him! Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 The planters have solemnly leagued themselves together to pay only five dollars per month to able field hands, each laborer to furnish his own clothes and pay his own doctor bills. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Course de field hands got it worse, but den, dey was men. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 At dinner, when the field hands come in, it am the same way. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 In the rice fields along the river about the same wages prevail as for the field hands in the cane plantations. The Negro Farmer And did you hear about two of their field hands running off? The Bondwoman From some of the outlying cabins, former quarters of slaves, came low, minor singing of present day field hands. Sunlight Patch My father was a field hand, and Mr. Swanson work de fire out dem. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 Most of the servants and field hands were gathered before the front door to greet Auguste. Shaman Even in slavery times, the mulattoes were preferred for certain positions, such as overseers, the blacks as field hands. The Negro Farmer Well, sah, they say he most went ’stracted on head o’ that smash up; an’ ’special when he found they took stock o’ Retta, just like any o’ the field hands. The Bondwoman Bees were droning in the air, and softly over the land came the song of a happy field hand. Sunlight Patch My daddy was a field hand and my mother worked in the fields, too, right 'longside my daddy, so she could keep him lined up. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 I know it cause he had so many field hands dey didn' none of em never have to work every day in de field. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 The whites do not like to settle in a region where they are to compete with the Negro on the farms as ordinary field hands. The Negro Farmer Ignorance cursed the individual with work, but it left him free of the higher responsibilities and the more acute penalties of transgressions, and just then Honey Tone wished devoutly that he was a field hand. Lady Luck The song of the field hand was hushed, but in its place was the smell of new turned earth that told of a labor finished. Sunlight Patch Everybody do he own work, sich as field hands, stock hands, de blacksmith and de shoemaker and de weavers and clothes makers. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 Daddy was a field hand and ploughed a big red mule, name Esau. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 On the twenty-sixth of June a Mexican officer came to the ranch and arrested Rogeen's Chinese cook and one of his field hands. The Desert Fiddler But the field hands in clearing the ditch undermined the stone and covered it with earth, so it now lies hidden from view. In Ancient Albemarle Consequently the "quarters" suggested themselves to the farmer as a good place for the new field hands to occupy for sleeping apartments. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Us mama name Marguerite and she a field hand, too, so us chillen growed up in the white folks house mostly. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 When I first began to work on the farm old master put me to cuttin' sprouts, then when I got big enough to make a field hand, I went to the field then. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Nearly all of the 'family,' excepting the field hands, had gathered to witness our arrival; but there was no shouting or noisy demonstrations. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The field hands were coloured men of some five or six different races, chiefly Chinese or Malays—the good-for-nothing riff-raff of their own countries come to seek a living elsewhere. Queensland Cousins But most of them will drink, if they get an opportunity—the field hands especially; and then they're apt to be quarrelsome, and if there's a knife handy, they'll use it.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Pappy am de field hand and de coachman and everything else what am needed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 I was told that the field hands had escaped in another direction before the water rose high enough to prevent it. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi The prospect of a white clergyman, an honor generally reserved only for the marriages of favorite house-servants, seemed to afford unmitigated satisfaction to the field hands. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A great part of them, field hands on the great cotton and sugar plantations, were rude and degraded, trained to live solely under close and constant control. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The mechanics are white, the field hands are black. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 And that, even if you were a field hand, would cause me to be interested in you. Old Ebenezer There were only six slaves used as regular field hands during his first year in Kentucky. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 "Do your seven field hands produce enough 'dip' to keep your still a running?" Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time The field hands were at work at sun-up and were not allowed to quit until dark. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 But all the house servants considered themselves vastly superior to the field hands and treated them with condescension. A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland They had colored preachers to preach to de field hands down in de quarters. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 On his plantation Henson served as water-boy, butler and finally as a field hand, experiencing the usual hardship of the slave. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 In about five minutes one after another of the field hands came in, till the whole ten had seated themselves on the verandah. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time Sam and Phyllis Henry was my pa and ma, and they was field hands. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 The largest quarter devoted to the slaves was a great circular structure, with a central hall surrounded by partitions, giving to each field hand a separate sleeping berth. A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland All de slaves dat was field hands, dey had to work mighty hard. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 In front of it stood an old cedar post with rusty iron rings to which the recalcitrant field hands had been bound for beating. The Blood of the Conquerors Finally they put us to toting water to de field hands, minding de gaps, taking de cows to pasture and as dat kept us purty busy we wasn't so bad after dat. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives The field hand of the plantation of the far South doubtless retained many of his most primitive savage traits. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 In about five minutes, one after another of the field hands came in, till the whole ten had seated themselves on the verandah. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Her duties were not onerous; compared with the toiling field hands she led an easy life. The Colonel's Dream She was a field hand and a cook. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 He gave us more and better food than he did his field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives For this reason the household slaves manifested a degree of intelligence and initiative far above that of the untutored field hand; this contact with the white was in effect an involuntary education. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Throughout European Christendom women had taken the place of men as field hands, labourers, mechanics, merchants, and manufacturers. The Man Who Rocked the Earth I could not think of sending him out as a field hand; in the first place for his father's sake, but still more for that of Vincent. With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War But it didn’t and then he began to hold a succession of jobs—field hand, sorghum maker, basket weaver, gardener and railway laborer—until he was too old to work. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 My mother was a regular field hand till Miss Sarah decided to take her into town to take care of her children. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Mrs. Preston then called in ten or twelve of the field hands, and told them to eject him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "Where do your field hands live, Mr. Sinclair?" asked Tom, as they walked through the modern, spotless, milking room. The Revolt on Venus They got better things to eat, too, than de field hands and wore better and cleaner clothes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 He was a field hand up to eighteen years. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Now, every machine operator and field hand on the planet thinks he can reincarnate as a prince or a millionaire. Last Enemy Ma was a field hand, and this time of the year when work was short in the field—laying-by time, we called it—and on rainy days she spun thread and wove cloth. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 When it was too dark to see all field hands were permitted to return to their cabins. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 They was all right, so far as I 'member, but being a field hand's child, off from de big house, I never got to play wid them any. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 He was a field hand at first, but after he come back with the scrofula, they just made him a carriage driver. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 They have a case on record of a man who worked up from field hand to millionaire in five reincarnations. Last Enemy House servants ware always considered superior to field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Pa, he was de carriage driver, and ma, she was a field hand. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Some of them were deserted, while others were occupied by the field hands. The Boy Trapper So from that time on, my father never worked as a field hand any more. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 The whole bunch—field hands and house servants. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War Her mother was a field hand, and they lived in a little house in the quarters. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 The field hands, always considered an inferior group by the house servants, worked from sunup to sundown. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Our arrival at dawn had been unobserved, as far as we knew, and the domestic slaves, mostly girls, had been kept from all communication with the field hands outside. Romance My father was a field hand at first. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 One field hand and his wife were sold to different bidders. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance She was a good field hand though and a good 'oman and she lived to be more dan 90 years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Only one of Mr. Moore's sons told the field hands what to do. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Slaves were divided into field hands, house servants and city slaves. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army Then came the ruck of field hands of all types. The Killer From the master of the house to the field hands in the "quarters," all bent to her regenerating rule. The Voice of the People At other times I drove the cows to and from the pasture and I often helped with the planting in the fields when the field hands were rushed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Instead of the white overseer usually found on plantations the Colonel used one of the slaves to act as foreman of the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Here William was employed as a house servant, while his mother was engaged as a field hand. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met The average field hand in California is a cross between a hobo and a labourer. The Killer But what of the field hands, the heavier workers? Children of the Market Place In relating his experience as a field hand Mr. Wright says that he and his fellow slaves were roused each morning about 3 o'clock by the blowing of a horn. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 I was not used quite as bad as the regular field hands, as the greater part of my time was spent working about the house; and my wife was the cook. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself Some might be mistaken for field hands on a holiday—but not many. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel To punish Cordelia, on several occasions, she had been sent to one of the plantations to work as a field hand. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. My master owned about forty slaves, twenty-five of whom were field hands. The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave In the summer months the field hands worked in their bare feet regardless of whether they had shoes or not. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Indeed Mr. Boylan was regarded as a very kind master to all the slaves about him; that is, to his house servants; nor did he inflict much cruelty upon his field hands, except by proxy. The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Singleton too; she was a field hand, and never was sold, but her parents were once. My Life In The South Thus Cordelia's experience, though chiefly confined to the "great house," extended occasionally over the corn and tobacco fields, among the overseers and field hands generally. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. My mother was a field hand, and one morning was ten or fifteen minutes behind the others in getting into the field. The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave For this purpose there was a woman who did all the cooking for the field hands in a cook house located among the slave cabins. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 The old house-servants are still there—Aunt Phillis, Aunt Sally, and the rest; many of the field hands, too, occupying their old quarters, but looking ragged and forlorn enough. Elsie's Womanhood Then, arbitrarily, as it seems, the rains may be withheld, and the hard-baked, heat-cracked soil never softens to admit the ploughshare, and hundreds of thousands of the cultivators and field hands are overtaken by famine. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments For one who had enjoyed only a field hand's privileges for improvement, he was not to be despised. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. But if she persisted in rejecting them, he would sell her as a field hand on the worst plantation on the river. The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave "See how Lopez herds those field hands along with that rifle." Boy Scouts in Southern Waters Ma mother was a field hand and she washed and ironed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 A slave who could use his hands at skilled work was more valuable than the ordinary field hand. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 This passenger was quite black, medium size, and in point of intellect, about on a par with ordinary field hands. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. No matter how hard she had worked all day after coming in from the field, she would have to cook for the next day, packing the lunch buckets for the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Ephraim," the Colonel said, turning to the old preacher, "put this man on the payroll as a field hand, beginning from to-morrow, but don't send him to the field for a couple of weeks. The Boy With the U.S. Census My mother and father were both field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 At rare intervals, the field hands were able to earn small sums of money in this manner. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Arriving as usual in due time these fugitives were examined, and all found to be extra field hands. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. A cart containing a number of negro field hands was being drawn by a mule. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations And here it may be well to inform you that the slaves on this plantation are divided into field hands and mechanics or artisans. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 They were field hands and I guess they did that. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 At the end of each week the field hands were given enough food to last them seven days. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 He was well versed in the lay of the country, having often driven his master's cotton to market when he was a field hand. Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted When daylight came field hands had been working an hour or more. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives He was at work with some of his field hands in a clearing. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 My step father and mother were both field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 His mother, brothers, and sisters, were all field hands, but there was never any work required of Mose, who was play-mate and companion to Manning, the youngest of Colonel Davis' five sons. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 The Vireo does not stop work at noon when the field hands lie under the apple trees, with their dinner pails beside them. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners The field hands were to be in the field by five o'clock and it meant to rise before day, summer and winter. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives The domestic and personal servants lived lives of culture and inglorious ease compared with those of the field hands. George Washington: Farmer He was a field hand and all kind of a hand when he was needed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 She was brought here from Virginia to be a field hand, but she was smart as a whip, and lived to be 118 years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 My position was second nurse for the doctor's family, or one of the inner servants of the family, not one of the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives Both my parents was field hands in slavery. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 The field hands worked by tasks under their drivers. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime We worked field hands till then, we do anything since. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Her mother was a field hand, but in the evenings she spun and wove down in their cabin. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 If he would leave such a kind master, what might not be expected of the oppressed field hand? A Visit to the United States in 1841 My folks never spoke of being nothing but field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 Each child was allowed one third as much meal and meat as was given to each field hand, and an abundance of vegetables to be cooked with their meat. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime My mother was a field hand in busy times too. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Those slaves who were field hands were in the field and at work by the time it was light enough to see. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 I heard her say she was a field hand mostly durin' slavery. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Grandmother was a field hand and so was her sister, Gilly. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 The masons, the carpenters and various other specialists were doubtless impressed as field hands on occasion. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime He was good to the field hands too. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Her mother was a weaver, her father—a field hand, and she did both housework and plantation labor. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 In slave time, my father was a field hand, I know that. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Grandma was a cook for the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 In cotton picking time when sickness begins to be prevalent, every field hand gets a dram in the morning before leaving for the field. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime He had right smart of field hands but I don't know just how many. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 The young children were assigned small tasks, such as piling brush in "new grounds", carrying water to field hands, and driving the calves to pasture. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Ma was a cook and pa a field hand. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 When they brought her here they tried to make a field hand out of her. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 This official each morning would assign to each field hand his or her individual plot, and spend the rest of the day in seeing to the performance of the work. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime He had a special cook, Aunt Mariah, to cook for the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 All the field hands were required to give into the hands of the cook a certain portion of their weekly allowance, either in dough or meal, which was prepared in the following manner. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West There had never been any regular daily instruction in Christian truths, but after this period only a few masters allowed field hands to attend family prayers. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War The meat was cut and weighed by the foreman of the field hands, and piled on planks before the meat house. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Others were hardly more removed from the status of common field hands. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime I was the water boy for the field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 The field hands, and such of them as have generally been excluded from the dwelling of their owners, look to the house servant as a pattern of politeness and gentility. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West House slave were usually better off than field hands, but, because they lived in such proximity to their masters, they were much quicker to adopt the master's values and tended to be more obsequious. The Black Experience in America "This sort of thing gives one an appetite like a field hand." Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise This period would extend in the case of male field hands from perhaps twenty-five to possibly fifty years of age, and in the case of artizans from say thirty to fifty-five years. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime My father and mother were both field hands. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 I was now, for the first time in my life, a field hand. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass While most slaves were plantation field hands, there were many whose lives followed different lines and for whom slavery was a very different experience. The Black Experience in America They resembled the field hands in nothing, except in color, and in this they held the advantage of a velvet-like glossiness, rich and beautiful. My Bondage and My Freedom The fare of the field hands was, of course, far more simple. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ma was a house girl and pa a field hand. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Ben being a field hand was busily employed picking cotton, with a prayerful heart, and a watchful eye on Wilson. Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson They say in the old days, they wuz just servants in the house and stables, and field hands. The Man in Gray I was still a field hand, and had come to prefer the severe labor of the field, to the enervating duties of a house servant. My Bondage and My Freedom They were ordinary field hands, not considered no. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime My mother-in-law told me during slavery she was a field hand. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 A peasant from southeastern Europe, a field hand who fell into the steerage of a transatlantic liner and fell out again. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago I can't go into the fields and work with slaves as a field hand. The Man in Gray My mother was hired out to a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from old master's, and, being a field hand, she seldom had leisure, by day, for the performance of the journey. My Bondage and My Freedom True, there is a great deal of suffering and ignorance among these field hands still, but there is a marked improvement, both as to the intelligence of these masses and their personal comfort. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences He saw the field hand driven forth at dawn to labor until dark. Frederick Douglass A Biography There was a light from the barn door, and as he passed he heard the sound of fiddles and the shuffling steps of the field hands in a noisy "game." The Battle Ground The simple field hands looked upon her as a higher being, and as their special messenger. The Law of the Land But he who follows her never comes back again; and when a field hand mysteriously disappears, his fellows say, "Y té ka ouè la Guiablesse!" Two Years in the French West Indies In a moment they were the centre of a hundred men, who, but for their guns, might have been taken for a lot of farmers and field hands. Janice Meredith The real workers—carpenters, masons, field hands, and house servants—are mostly Japanese. Time and Change Then, with the bread on the end of a long fork, she sat before the fire and asked Cupid about the health and fortunes of the house servants and the field hands. The Battle Ground I said I'd show them everything they wanted; so I sent out for some of my field hands. The Law of the Land Reaching the last plantation, we draw rein in a village of small wooden cottages,—the quarters of the field hands,—and receive from the proprietor, a personal friend of my friends, the kindest welcome. Two Years in the French West Indies That afternoon the field hands paid no attention to Mr. Baron's orders, and he saw that slaves from other plantations were present. Miss Lou Craig took away his hand and burst into his noisy, boyish laughter, so reminiscent of things rural and boorish, of the coarse, strong spirits of the happy-go-lucky, irresponsibles that work as field hands and wood-haulers. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel Farther away there were the small lights of the negro cabins in the "quarters," and a great one from the barn door where the field hands were strumming upon their banjos. The Battle Ground Seventeen prime field hands, ranging from 17 to 63 years old, together with sundry children, set forth in the schedule. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter The price of "field hands" rose, and continued to rise. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest If you must punish for effect, take some stout field hand who is insubordinate or lazy. Miss Lou They were barbers, field hands, hack drivers, and servants. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states I could not think of sending him out as a field hand, in the first place for his father's sake, but still more for that of Vincent. With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War Unlike Reed's house, there were no lounging servants or field hands to be seen; they were evidently attending to their respective duties. Sally Dows Claude had always worked hard when he was at home, and made a good field hand, while Ralph had never done much but tinker with machinery and run errands in his car. One of Ours There are the Chinese field hands," said Mrs. Hale; "you must correct your ideas, and really allow them some humanity, Kate. Snow-Bound at Eagle's We need not add that had those young girls been sold for mere house servants or field hands, they would not have brought one half the sums they did. Clotel; or, the President's Daughter |
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