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One or two hands in the barn-yard

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Woman rice planter.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Agricultural Laborers
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Barns
  5. Plantation Life
  6. Women

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Fanning and pounding rice for household use The yearly pow-wow at Casa Bianca You see a stack of rice approaching, and you perceive a pair of legs, or a skirt, as the case may be, peeping from beneath. " Near the bridge two negro women are fishing Old Maum Mary came to bring me a present of sweet potatoes. " I saw a raft of very fine poplar logs being made To-day the hands are " toting " the rice into the flats "The girls shuffled the rice about with their feet until it was clayed. " Five children asked me to let them "hunt tetta" Pounding rice The sheaves are beaten with flails Winnowing house for preparation of seed rice The hoe they consider purely a feminine implement Sol's wife, Afrodite, is a specimen of maternal health and vigor "The field with its picturesque workers." A woman rice planter [by] Patience Pennington [pseudonym] with an introduction by Owen Wister and illustrations by Alice R. H. Smith His wife is very stirring In the field - sowing It is tied into sheaves, which the Negroes do very skilfully, with a wisp of the rice itself." She picked her usual thirty-five pounds alone
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