Sentences with phrase «field hands»

But many farms will still need human field hands.

Many were decades out of date, showing young, strong men instead of the middle - aged field hands the men had become.

A notorious and psychotic slave breaker, Epps, superbly acted by the fearless Fassbender, is the absolute ruler of a disturbing alternate universe of his own devising, one characterized by his alternating passion for and disgust with the slave Patsy (Nyong «o), his sexual chattel as well as the best field hand on his plantation.

I know the term hoecakes might sound derogatory but it actually originates from field hands who cooked cornmeal cakes on their hoes.

Dillahunt will portray Armsby, a fellow field hand who works alongside Solomon Northup, a free black man who's brought South against his will and sold into slavery.

Patzek and Pimentel count many more inputs than the others, including labor energy expended by field hands and energy embedded in farm equipment and in the ethanol factory itself.

It's a working organic farm, doesn't charge people to visit, and offers hay rides to the fields, fresh pressed apple cider, pony rides, a hay maze for the little ones, a real live trebuchet for pitching pumpkins, live music, tasty food, and a great atmosphere. I especially like that at the end of the free rides out to the pumpkin fields they hand you clippers so you can cut your own pumpkin from the vine.

A white overseer, unwilling to interrupt punishment of a black field hand by another white employee, rides off to get the plantation owner.

Rose Hill mostly grew tobacco, which Momma and a couple of the bigger field hands would ride into town to trade for cloth and other essentials.

Long before the recent movie Twelve Years a Slave earned high praise for dispensing with the Hollywood stereotypes of lovable masters and cheerful field hands, Kara Walker's videos, cut - paper silhouettes, and installations zeroed in on an antebellum South of casual violence and unspeakable savagery.

Stess has spent more than two decades photographing the annual blueberry harvest in northern Maine, raking alongside Native American Mainers and migrant field hands from south of our borders.

The pose of a crisply dressed young boy or girl might rhyme with the Greco - Roman «Dying Gaul» or a 19th century Courbet or Millet painting of pious field hands.

Facilitated customer dialog through direct daily customer interaction and a hands on presences in the field

Bracero is a Spanish term which can be defined loosely as «one who works with his arms», or as a close equivalent, as a field hand.

Sure, many players and agents needed a sobering shower, but the Clemens and Raines scenarios suggest that the victory most owners really want is over the field hands.

A wealthy, lonely, land - owning, raw - boned farmer (Shepard in his acting debut) of the Great Plains falls in love with the girlfriend (Adams) of a hot - headed wheat - field worker (Gere), who is masquerading as the field hand's sister.

Along the way they roustabout on an oil rig, defend a bitter Suzanne Pleshette from a murder charge, go logging in Oregon, work as ranchers, field hands, pickers, crop dusters, and more.

For now, it's sufficient to know that Ned, after a stint in the slammer thanks to his marijuana largesse, heads back to the farm only to learn that his girlfriend has dumped him for another field hand and, what's worse, she ain't parting with his beloved canine companion.

Roger Guenveur Smith plays Isaiah, a house servant who dresses like a butler and is several degrees higher on the scale than a field hand.

One of the field hands shouts «Quittin'time!»

She was a badly frightened woman with no concern for her horses, as John saw and quickly ordered buckets to be brought around, as the woman cried, Get out, get out, take what you can and leave, and seemed to be roused to anger as they only stood listening, with some of the field hands appearing now around the side of the house with the first light, as if drawn into existence by it.

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children.

With characters such as the Scottish walker, field hand and night watchman amongst others, there are plenty of different individuals to showcase.

For more than 50 years he worked as a field hand on the plantation where he was born.

From a truck - driver, dishwasher, server, secretary, bus driver, factory worker, school teacher, car salesperson, retail salesperson, watchmaker, sausage maker, housekeeper, stay - at - home whatever... to a professional Realtor after a few weeks of theoretical classes without the benefit of in - the - field hands - on training / experience?