cotton-pickers

The United States was built by citizens of all sorts -- school-teachers and cotton-pickers no less than stock-brokers and entrepreneurs.

Bruce Ackerman: Democratizing Wall Street? Bruce Ackerman 2011

He and his family were farmers in Arkansas, perhaps cotton-pickers like my grandmother and her family.

An Aging Radical on Race and Politics 2008

My grandpa was old enough to know what calling people cotton-pickers was, and his generation made the cartoons.

Friday Night Open Thread: Comics Rogers 2005

Most probably, Pedro was with the rest of the cotton-pickers on their way to El Salado.

A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

Pedro, her husband, would soon be back in the truck that brought the cotton-pickers from the plantations at El Salado.

A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

Most probably, Pedro was with the rest of the cotton-pickers on their way to El Salado.

A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

Pedro, her husband, would soon be back in the truck that brought the cotton-pickers from the plantations at El Salado.

A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

Bunny and Sue liked it so much on the plantation, watching the cotton-pickers and occasionally pulling up a few peanuts for themselves, that I think they would have been willing to spend the rest of the winter in that part of the sunny South.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Laura Lee Hope

It was pleasant to see the quiet wonder go on, until the landscape was completely changed, -- to walk home _scuffing_ the snow from the frozen road on which my feet had ground as I came that way, and see the fences full, and the hollows heaped up level, and the birches bent down with their hair hidden, and the broad arms of the fir-trees loaded, like sombre cotton-pickers going home heavily laden.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

I verily believed this to be untrue, and felt convinced that I had picked at least five hundred pounds, for I was one of the best, if not the best, cotton-pickers in the country; and

Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson Charles Thompson