Determined to leave the cotton fields of rural Tennessee for the bright lights of Chicago, Koko packed her bags and moved there with her future husband Robert Taylor.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

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They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

And while they're harvesting cotton in this field,they're planting wheat in fields nearby.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12