field hand

Example Sentences

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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

His father, who is listed as not being able to read or write, was a farmer and Lawrence is listed as a field hand in the 1880 census.

From Washington Post

As rough and rowdy as many of the oil field hands I worked with were, these men knew oil.

From New York Times

In 2019, an estimated 1 percent of the field hands were from Britain.

From Washington Post

By the Department of Agriculture’s estimates, about half the country’s field hands — more than a million workers — are undocumented.

From New York Times