field-hand

Just once, I wanted a beating to leave field-hand whip marks on my back.

I'm Perfect, You're Doomed 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.

Joseph Louis: Just Work: Unjust End 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.

The Elvenbane 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.'

Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

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.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

She was the dependable field-hand for the sowing and reaping, when agriculture became the principal means of subsistence.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

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.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

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.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

The preceding testimony proves conclusively, that the _quantity of food_ generally allowed to a full-grown field-hand, is a peck of corn

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society