I started chopping cotton when I was 10, she told Sports Illustrated in 1975.

One of 29 children - her father married twice - she chopped cotton in the field with her mother.

You're going to be chopping cotton when this is over, nig!

To make ends meet, he had to earn his living in the fields chopping cotton, picking grapes or cutting spinach.

We chopped cotton and all that stuff.

From the age of seven, Janis spent her summers chopping cotton, and autumns helping the family pick cotton.

Waters grew up a bright, bold young man, looking for a way out of a lifetime of chopping cotton.

He chopped cotton in rural Mississippi.

A tiny class of white plantation owners held poor blacks in economic serfdom, chopping and picking cotton, nearly always in debt.

Her parents were laborers on the same plantation where they had been slaves, and Sarah labored beside them, chopping and picking cotton.