field hand

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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.”

From Washington Post

His field hands pulled the season’s last remaining fruit from the spiny branches above.

From New York Times

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.”

From Seattle Times

He dug ditches, picked cotton and worked as a field hand.

From Washington Post

Slavery laid the groundwork for the stereotype that Black people don’t want to work, Ms. Minoff said, and helped establish a narrow conception of work: as servants, domestics and field hands.

From New York Times