cane cutters
Field machete wielders
Cane cutters are workers who harvest sugarcane by hand, cutting the stalks with machetes or similar tools.
The work is physically demanding and historically associated with brutal labor conditions, from Caribbean slavery through modern migrant labor.
Cane cutter also names the long-bladed tool used for the work.
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- bagasseCane-crushing byproduct
- raw sugarMinimally processed cane crystals
- sugarcaneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
- harvestingGathering mature crops
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- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
- sugar plantationsugarcane, sugar mill, plantation, molasses, sugarcane fields
- industrial workersfactory workers, assembly workers, laborers, maintenance crews, maintenance crew
- colonial slaverychattel slavery, African slaves, slave markets, slave codes, slave ships
cane cuttersplantation owners
Large-scale agricultural landholders
sugar barons · landowners · mill owners · overseers · planters
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