cane-field

They were cane-field workers, wholly unfamiliar with modern machinery of any kind.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

They were cane-field workers, wholly unfamiliar with modern machinery of any kind.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

Two weeks later, on Easter Sunday, the day before he was to undergo surgery, he was kidnapped from his hospital bed by police agents and was found dead the next morning in a roadside cane-field near the town of San Pedro de Macoris, some forty miles away.

Santo Domingo: The Politics of Terror Gall, Norman 1971

Here was the first cane-field; the track he was following became here a rough and narrow roadway through the cane, deeply rutted by cartwheels.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

But I vetoed as resolutely as Andrew Jackson himself, thus putting up the bars between the wheat-field and cane-field, or probably by this time I should have been pouring in spice, eggs, and milk, and at last should have committed the crime of doing just as other people do.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Florida, a _broken-winded_ negro is more common than a _broken-winded_ horse; though usually, when they are declared unsound, or when their constitution is so broken that their recovery is despaired of, they are exported to New Orleans, to drag out the remainder of their days in the cane-field and sugar house.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

The demon of Jaspar's nature displayed itself in the cane-field and in the sugar-house, which Colonel Dumont rarely visited, having intrusted the entire management of the estate to him, his own attention being occupied by the exterior business of the plantation, and by his city possessions.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

Florida, a _broken-winded_ negro is more common than a _broken-winded_ horse; though usually, when they are declared unsound, or when their constitution is so broken that their recovery is despaired of, they are exported to New Orleans, to drag out the remainder of their days in the cane-field and sugar house.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

He had only time to conceal himself in a cane-field, when the doomed couple reached the jail.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

From the edge of the cane-field on the other side there cascaded down the bank a mad vegetation; it carpeted the sides, arched itself above in a vault, and inside this recess the water was rotting, green-scummed; and a powerful fermentation filled the nostrils with hot fever-smells.

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