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

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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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At a meeting of the National Negro Business League, Madam Walker explained that she was a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.

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And it's convenient, too, as the catfish farms in the South are close to the cotton fields.

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As a young girl, she and her brother would help their parents in the cotton fields.

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They will need water for their mills, their power plants and their nearby cotton fields.

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