fieldhand

(62) In John D'Arms's discussion of slaves who worked as food and wine servers, he asserts that, despite the gratifications such slaves would have of wearing nicer clothes or of eating higher-quality food than fieldhands, their proximity to the master also meant they were watched more closely and were more readily abused.

However, there was a pattern to people's narratives describing how their "knowledge" had been valued but they had been mistreated, underpaid, and treated as fieldhands.

Those who thought, in the beginning, that it was too respectable, and those who thought it was too radical; the young people who didn't want to wait another minute, and the old ones who had waited for 81 and 82 and 94 years; the smooth operators from New York and Chicago and the fieldhands from Mississippi; the church women from Atlanta and the gay crowd from Harlem: For a moment in time they were one.

Fieldhands, since the late seventeenth century, had become almost exclusively blacks legally bound to lifelong chattel slave status.

So few flocks of fieldhands absconded to safe retreat and sanctuary in adjacent forest (a mere paucity of bold rebels amid thousands of cowed sheep), their absence was hardly noticed.

Young Israelis no longer look up to the construction workers and fieldhands whose sweat greased the wheels of the Zionist revolution in the thirties and forties, much less wish to follow in their footsteps.

Some roles continued to distort the image of Blacks more than even the stereotypical servants and fieldhands, and the ones that might have been good roles for Black actresses were played by Whites in black makeup.