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There are lumberwomen as well as lumbermen in the forests of the South. In fact, in the region of the Bayou Boeuf they perform their share of all the labor required on the plantation. They plough drag, drive team, clear wild lands, work on the high way, and so forth. Some planters, owning large cotton and sugar plantations, have none other than the labor of slave women.
12 Years a Slave
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