Field+Slaves

__**Field Slaves**__

Every harvest season, field slaves would get their sack and head out to the fields in the blistering hot august weather. They would each make their way down the long row of cotton with a partner on the other side. Often times they would prick their fingers on the cotton bolls. "Blood ran from their fingertips" - John Brown. When the unfortunate field slaves did not pick enough sacks of cotton they would be whipped by the merciless overseer. Whipping was the most common punishment. The overseer would demand that the slave bent over. Then they would slash the slave on the back. "I thought I must die beneath the lashes" said a then-ex slave.



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