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At the same time, industrial facilities lured laborers into factories and mills as fewer were needed to work the land.
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Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025
Image Owners like farmers and forest managers can still work the land, but agree that it can never be developed, even if the land changes hands.
—Andrew Mangum, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
New farmers begin to work the land, oblivious to the hidden danger.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
In fact, 81% of Black people who don’t live in cities live in the South, a legacy of slavery and how generations of Africans were forcefully taken to work the land as free labor.
—Darren Dubose, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
In this candid tale about hard work, Carter reflects on his the fruits of his physical labor — using an array of tools to build furniture and a plow to work the land.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Here, those who work the land are those who survive.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
—Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
Citizens would work the land or engage in trade to meet their needs instead of creating massive farms, plantations, or industrial plants designed to generate immense profit.
—TIME, 6 May 2024
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Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025
Image Owners like farmers and forest managers can still work the land, but agree that it can never be developed, even if the land changes hands.
—Andrew Mangum, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
New farmers begin to work the land, oblivious to the hidden danger.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
In fact, 81% of Black people who don’t live in cities live in the South, a legacy of slavery and how generations of Africans were forcefully taken to work the land as free labor.
—Darren Dubose, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
In this candid tale about hard work, Carter reflects on his the fruits of his physical labor — using an array of tools to build furniture and a plow to work the land.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Here, those who work the land are those who survive.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Slave traders also forced enslaved Africans onto ships bound for North America, where slaveholders compelled them to work the land.
—Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
Citizens would work the land or engage in trade to meet their needs instead of creating massive farms, plantations, or industrial plants designed to generate immense profit.
—TIME, 6 May 2024
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“Work the land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20the%20land. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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