field-hands

It was the regular servants and field-hands who had to be drilled in subservience until it became second nature, and many times Kyrtian was strongly tempted to meddle with their minds by means of magic to keep them from forgetting.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Now that the warnings were in place and the attitude of the field-hands and farmers had been established, he judged that it was time to prepare the general outward appearance of his people.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Just a big hunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining-wait, wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make believe it's nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Markets ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

On a plantation with approximately 250 slaves, the consumption of food and drink in a year was estimated by one owner at 27,000 pounds of pork, 20 beeves, 4 hogsheads of rum, 150 gallons of brandy, 550 bushels of wheat and an unreckoned quantity of corn, which was the principal food of the field-hands.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

On a plantation with approximately 250 slaves, the consumption of food and drink in a year was estimated by one owner at 27,000 pounds of pork, 20 beeves, 4 hogsheads of rum, 150 gallons of brandy, 550 bushels of wheat and an unreckoned quantity of corn, which was the principal food of the field-hands.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

On a plantation with approximately 250 slaves, the consumption of food and drink in a year was estimated by one owner at 27,000 pounds of pork, 20 beeves, 4 hogsheads of rum, 150 gallons of brandy, 550 bushels of wheat and an unreckoned quantity of corn, which was the principal food of the field-hands.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

On a plantation with approximately 250 slaves, the consumption of food and drink in a year was estimated by one owner at 27,000 pounds of pork, 20 beeves, 4 hogsheads of rum, 150 gallons of brandy, 550 bushels of wheat and an unreckoned quantity of corn, which was the principal food of the field-hands.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

"To one of Mr. Darby's field-hands," answered Currer.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

He encouraged his driver to work the field-hands from early dawn till late at night; and the good appearance of the house-servants, and the preaching of Snyder to the field negroes, was to cause himself to be regarded as a Christian master.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

This was done upon one hundred and eighty-nine plantations, on which were nine thousand and fifty people, of whom four thousand four hundred and twenty-nine were field-hands, made up of men, women, and children, and equivalent, in the usual classification and estimate of the productive capacity of laborers, to three thousand eight hundred and five and one-half full hands.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various