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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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Most days were spent in the cotton fields picking cotton or working the land.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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And this is proven in this area where cotton was a major product and former slaves both white and black worked the fields along side the Mexican farmer who needed the work to feed his or her family.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Today the cotton fields are gone, the wineries are closed and the silk industry has given way to modern, more prosperous businesses.
It was surrounded by cotton fields and patches of scrub oak, birch and elm trees.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Today, fields of cotton and chile and groves of pecan trees stand on what was once dangerous and wild land.
It is slavery in the very same way that dragging Africans across the ocean and forcing them to work in the cotton fields of the South was slavery.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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We had cotton fields next to our house and an irrigation canal behind our back fence.
The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Cotton and soybeans are still a part of the Carrs' rotation program on those fields, and the three-tenths slope provides the row crops with good drainage.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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I am leaving the corn and cotton fields behind for tropical vegetation as I recently crossed the tropic of cancer and thunder on south toward the equator.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Cotton fields in the Upper Coastal Bend of Texas showed great yield potential in mid-July.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The mill was the first in the nation that would take the raw cotton from the fields and turn out the finished products.
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