field hand

I have no idea how the field hands call themselves.

So there was some common ground among the field hands.

These were the field hands and there was no land for them to work.

I was now, for the first time in my life, a field hand.

No one wants to give up eight or ten of their best years only to become a field hand.

You take him now, and we'll lose six field hands.

Both the field hands and the white folks were used to seeing them together.

"What I need is something more than a field hand.

Second, I got paid for picking, same as the other field hands.

My father was a field hand, a son of a slave - and I'm a college teacher.

They had their own quarters apart from the field hands.

Will would certainly welcome a good field hand at Tara.

What's a woman going to want with a field hand?"

More field hands meant less cotton for me to pick.

He did think she might make a good enough domestic servant, maybe even a field hand.

Three field hands and one child were struck by malaria.

He started listening to blues on the radio while working as a field hand.

At the age of 19, while working as a field hand, he began to perform professionally.

"The way you've been working, more like a field hand than a lord. "

They make good field hands and mine workers, nothing more."

I look out the window, to where the field hands are gathering near the barn.

Long association with their master and the family had given them a sophistication the field hands did not have.

Thus, some field hands could actually end the season in debt to the landowner.

"I suggest you ask some field hands, as low fellows of that sort are the ones who'd consider doing such a thing."

All our field hands are gone and there's nobody to pick it."