| The sheaves are beaten with flails | Frontispiece |
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| "Cherokee"—my father's place | 4 |
| Bonaparte | 7 |
| Each field has a small flood-gate, called a "trunk" | 9 |
| Marcus began work on the breaks | 10 |
| "The girls shuffled the rice about with their feet until it was clayed" | 11 |
| Near the bridge two negro women are fishing | 14 |
| A request from Wishy's mother, Annette, for something to stop bleeding | 17 |
| Green thought it was folly and fussiness | 27 |
| She picked her usual thirty-five pounds alone | 31 |
| To-day the hands are "toting" the rice into the flats | 34 |
| "You see a stack of rice approaching, and you perceive a pair of legs, or a skirt, as the case may be, peeping from beneath" | 35 |
| Chloe | 40 |
| Front porch—Casa Bianca | 42 |
| Elihu was a splendid boatman | 51 |
| My little brown maid Patty is a new acquisition and a great comfort, for she is very bright | 53 |
| The roughness and plainness of the pineland house | 54 |
| The yearly powwow at Casa Bianca | 60 |
| "Four young girls who are splendid workers" | 62 |
| She promised not to war any more | 65 |
| "Myself, ma'am, bin most stupid" | 66 |
| A rice field "flowed" | 72 |
| The hoe they considered purely a feminine implement | 79 |
| The back steps to the pineland house | 84 |
| "A very large black hat" | 87 |
| Her husband brought her in an ox cart | 93 |
| "Old Maum Mary came to bring me a present of sweet potatoes" | 98 |
| "Pa dey een 'e bald" | 102 |
| One or two hands in the barn-yard | 107 |
| A corner of Casa Bianca | 109 |
| "Chaney" | 112 |
| Five children asked me to let them "hunt tetta" | 120 |
| "It is tied into sheaves, which the negroes do very skilfully, with a wisp of the rice itself" | 122 |
| "The field with its picturesque workers" | 124 |
| "The Ferry" | 132 |
| His wife was very stirring | 136 |
| Day after day I met Judy coming out of her patch | 138 |
| "Old Florinda, the plantation nurse" | 144 |
| "Miss Patience, le' me len' yer de money" | 150 |
| "Jus' shinin' um up wid de knife-brick" | 159 |
| Aphrodite spread a quilt and deposited the party upon it | 164 |
| "Then he could talk a-plenty" | 171 |
| Chloe is devoted to the chicks—feeds them every two hours | A WOMAN RICE PLANTER
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