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His many references to nature, Black history, basketball, and R&B build a biography of his family—his grandmother’s work as a field hand, his parent’s divorce, his father’s dementia.
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Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
Teresa Romero, president of United Farm Workers, the labor union that has long represented California field hands from Mexico and other points outside the United States, said in a statement Saturday night that Garcia's death has left the organization anguished.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 13 July 2025
Most of the enslaved people were field hands, but some were masons, house-hold servants and carpenters.
—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
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Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
Teresa Romero, president of United Farm Workers, the labor union that has long represented California field hands from Mexico and other points outside the United States, said in a statement Saturday night that Garcia's death has left the organization anguished.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 13 July 2025
Most of the enslaved people were field hands, but some were masons, house-hold servants and carpenters.
—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
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“Field hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20hand. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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