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In fact, 81% of Black people who don’t live in cities live in the South, a legacy of slavery and how generations of Africans were forcefully taken to work the land as free labor.
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Darren Dubose, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
In this candid tale about hard work, Carter reflects on his the fruits of his physical labor — using an array of tools to build furniture and a plow to work the land.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Here, those who work the land are those who survive.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
—Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
Citizens would work the land or engage in trade to meet their needs instead of creating massive farms, plantations, or industrial plants designed to generate immense profit.
—TIME, 6 May 2024
The new settlers established a wide network of cotton plantations that crisscrossed the state and brought in enslaved people to work the land and tend to their homes.
—Dana Shavin, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
The idea that Jews would work the land was central to a new Jewish identity different from the intellectual or businessman of the diaspora.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
Players have to fix up an old house, work the land and rebuild the small town.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
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Darren Dubose, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
In this candid tale about hard work, Carter reflects on his the fruits of his physical labor — using an array of tools to build furniture and a plow to work the land.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Here, those who work the land are those who survive.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
—Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
Citizens would work the land or engage in trade to meet their needs instead of creating massive farms, plantations, or industrial plants designed to generate immense profit.
—TIME, 6 May 2024
The new settlers established a wide network of cotton plantations that crisscrossed the state and brought in enslaved people to work the land and tend to their homes.
—Dana Shavin, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
The idea that Jews would work the land was central to a new Jewish identity different from the intellectual or businessman of the diaspora.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
Players have to fix up an old house, work the land and rebuild the small town.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
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“Work the land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20the%20land. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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