Highlights included the red wine Tom, which came with a moving backstory as a dedication to former
fieldhand Tom Preston, and the sweet Riesling Ice Wine.
Unlike the powerful or potentially powerful who must fight the Ring's temptation to multiply their strength and influence, Sam's humility is his protection from the Ring; power cannot tempt the simple plowman or
fieldhand of the Middle Ages or the gardener of Middle-earth who finds contentment in fulfilling the role assigned him.
Under the stern eye of Red's skeptical lawyer (Bill Cobbs), Jason reluctantly (and resentfully) begins a curriculum that involves grueling
fieldhand work for a Texas rancher (Brian Dennehy) and hardscrabble struggle as a homeless wretch after eviction from his posh apartment.
There he became a
fieldhand and experienced the true suffering of a slave.
16r-16v "Just as the shipman, driven abroad over the waves, rejoices to tread the fertile earth, or the hardened
fieldhand to slake his thirst from the babbling brook at hot harvest-season."
I didn't like it because we left the Delta for this reason, too much racism and prejudice existed, and now to have come up here and find that racism was just as bad, and that white folk in the North had a place for black folk just like they did down South, was disappointin', but I wasn't willin' to be on another plantation, a
fieldhand in the factory workin' like a Mississippi slave.
The latter stretches into our history, to the pitting of slave overseer against slave
fieldhand in our guilt-infested memory of slavery.
The innkeeper in the final portion of part one, for example, notes that during harvest time, after a hard day's labor, the illiterate
fieldhands gather at the inn to listen to someone read a story or a chapter of a book to them.