Without a magnifying glass, it is difficult to see the faces on the slaves as they harvest cotton and hoist overflowing baskets to their shoulders.

The rest were employed harvesting coffee, cotton, and tobacco, and in some cases in mining.

Harvesting dry beans and cotton, planting winter wheat and potatoes behind the harvesters.

There are exceptions to the 24-hour break period for certain harvesting employees, like those involved in harvesting grapes, tree fruits and cotton.

They travel annually to coastal areas of their own country and to southern Mexico to harvest coffee, cacao, sugar and cotton, working long hours for low pay.

The wealthy planters of southeast Arkansas strongly supported slavery since manual labor was the only method of harvesting cotton at the time.

In 1903, the first 500 farmers arrived; by late 1904, 405 km2 (100,000 acres) of valley were irrigated, with 10,000 people settled on the land harvesting cotton, fruits, and vegetables.

But, toward the end of World War II, machines were developed to harvest cotton and chemicals to kill the weeds.

Historian Garin Burbank argues that the coming of conscription threatened to decimate family economies by removing able-bodied young men needed to harvest cotton.

In his spare time, Brown also worked in the fields of the farm harvesting corn and cotton.