Just once, I wanted a beating to leave field-hand whip marks on my back. ❋ Kyria Abrahams (2009)
Elirose Pierre-Louis, who came to the US from Haiti in 1985, worked as a seasonal field-hand and as a janitor in southern Florida. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The casual rape of a fertile field-hand, a mistake in the contraception treatments, an affair by a younger elf with a simple servant or a breeder'there must have been a dozen ways a conception could occur. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)
If I cook another meal for anyone, it'll be for myself and not for six field-hand appetites that don't know decent food from pigs 'swill.' ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1967)
Olmsted says: 'I much doubt if the harvest demand of the principal cotton districts of Mississippi adds five per cent. to their field-hand force. ❋ Various (N/A)
Although these travelers were all of the field-hand order, they were, nevertheless, very promising, and they anticipated better days in ❋ William Still (N/A)
Russian "field-hand" are as follows: Laborers by the day, 37-1/2 kopecks ❋ Various (N/A)
They knew immediately; there is nothing connected with the parish that a field-hand does not know at once. ❋ Grace E. King (N/A)
She was the dependable field-hand for the sowing and reaping, when agriculture became the principal means of subsistence. ❋ Henry Kalloch Rowe (N/A)
Yes -- he was the offspring of a mulatto field-hand by her master. ❋ Frank J. Webb (N/A)
The preceding testimony proves conclusively, that the _quantity of food_ generally allowed to a full-grown field-hand, is a peck of corn ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
This party represented the more promising-looking field-hand slave population of Maryland. ❋ William Still (N/A)
He never indulged in any regrets for the Arcadian joyousness and irresponsibility which was a somewhat popular conception of slavery; his had not been the lot of the petted house-servant, but that of the toiling field-hand. ❋ Various (N/A)
She was sold after her master's death, and brought to Mississippi, and placed on a plantation as a field-hand; but, not being used to field-work, she found it impossible to keep up with the old hands, and the overseer whipped her severely. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)
So far is this from being the case, that although family prayers were held in several of the fifty planters 'houses in Mississippi and Alabama, in which I passed a night, I never in a single instance saw a field-hand attend or join in the devotion of the family. ❋ Various (N/A)
The others were nearly all of the true field-hand type, aboriginal black, with dull faces, short and thick forms, and an air of animal contentment or at least indifference. ❋ Various (N/A)
The fact, of coarse, was unpleasant, and the loss considerable, -- a prime field-hand, with some knowledge of carpentry and a good performer on the violin, -- but evasions must be checked, and I cannot see why Mr. Mellasys's method was too severe. ❋ Various (N/A)
When Lincoln became a man and, divorced from his father's grasping tyranny, set up as a field-hand, he lightened the labor in Menard ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
Tom, another member of the McLane institution, was about twenty-five years of age, of unmixed blood, and a fair specimen of a well-trained field-hand. ❋ William Still (N/A)
