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The food is more abundant than that of field slaves; indeed it is the best allowance in America: ... My mother was a field hand, and one morning was ten or fifteen minutes behind the others in getting into the field. As soon as she reached the spot where they were at work, the overseer commenced whipping her. She cried, "Oh!
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House slaves usually lived better than field slaves. They usually had better food and ... My mother was a field hand, and one morning was ten or fifteen minutes behind the others in getting into the field. As soon as she reached the spot where they were at work, the overseer commenced whipping her. She cried, "Oh!
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In judging of the welfare of the slaves, it is necessary to distinguish the different conditions of slavery. The most important distinction, both as regards numbers and its influence on the wellbeing of the slave, is that between houseservants and farm or fieldhands.
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Submitted: Sat Sep 06 2003; Rating: 0.00; Votes: 0; CT: Philosophy: Philosophers: S: Stirling, James Hutchison: The Life of Plantation Field Hands; ... Category for: Philosophy: Philosophers: S: Stirling, James Hutchison: The Life of Plantation Field Hand...
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Field slaves had a very hard life. Their job was to work in the big fields. In the South, many plantations grew cotton. Cotton is a very thorny bush. Women and men had to work from sun up to sun down picking cotton. Than, cotton seeds were mixed with cornmeal and baked. The field slaves usually lived in one room cabins.
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Definition of field hand in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of field hand. Pronunciation of field hand. Translations of field hand. field hand synonyms, field hand antonyms. Information about field hand in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... She was a field hand, and a whipping is the penalty of not being...
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But there were also other ways to be a farm-worker. Some people were slaves working on somebody else's farm. ... Because most of the work on a farm is the planting and the reaping, in October and June, a lot of rich people just bought a few slaves, who did the weeding and kept things going during the rest of the year,
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Fuller kept his antislavery views to himself while in the South, noting that "People here are very sensitive on home questions." This drawing, labeled "Ellis, Field Hand," was one of about thirty sketches Fuller drew of black slaves and plantation life.
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Purpose:; To Promote making decisions about what has been read; to encourage reading for different purposes; and to help readers learn to organize information from material they have read. ... in the old South the overseer was often one of the slaves who made sure the other field hand slaves kept working.
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