Examples of 'picked cotton' in a sentence

Meaning of "picked cotton"

picked cotton: Refers to the act of harvesting cotton crops, often associated with manual labor or historical contexts related to slavery and agriculture

How to use "picked cotton" in a sentence

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picked cotton
They picked cotton and other crops.
The whole family picked cotton.
I picked cotton for the first time.
She and her entire family picked cotton to survive.
She picked cotton with her parents.
When she was young her family picked cotton in order to earn money.
I picked cotton once in my life.
From age six she picked cotton with her family.
Picked cotton for meat.
The whole family picked cotton to support themselves.
Picked cotton and collards till I was a teenager.
To supplement income the family picked cotton for more successful farmers.
I picked cotton in Australia.
She visited over seventy churches and picked cotton with the sharecroppers.
We picked cotton.

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It was built by African slaves, who also picked cotton in the fields.
She also picked cotton for several years.
Yes, I am old enough to have picked cotton.
You never picked cotton on a plantation.
Tammy, along with everybody else in Tremont, Mississippi, picked cotton.
I have also picked cotton in the summers in NC.
I picked cotton when I was quite young.
A small number of these families picked cotton in fields farmed by Punjabi men.
He picked cotton in Mississippi, you told me a hundred times.
I have weeded, hoed and picked cotton till I can not stand it.
I picked cotton for Mr. Pritchett, and he has been good to me.
I have weeded and hoed and picked cotton until I can not stand it another minute.
I have picked cotton all over the south, and that 's the finest.
It simply said " hands that once picked cotton can now pick presidents ".
Hands that picked cotton now pick the President.
Evers popularized the slogan, " Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor . ".
As a child, he picked cotton in the fields with his parents alongside black laborers.
Go back to work. - have not picked cotton today! It was not him.
As a child she picked cotton before running away from home at age 13.
I have weeded, and hoed and picked cotton till I can not stand it another minute.
Yes . He picked cotton in Mississippi.
My parents picked cotton and coffee . ”.
If my ancestors picked cotton for 50 years, then they deserve that money, not me.
I've weeded, hoed and picked cotton till I can't stand it.
But I have never picked cotton or been on top of old smokey.

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