cane cutter

cane cutter (plural cane cutters)

1. A worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.
   • 1838, Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Chapter 3, “Antigua,” p. 46,^[1]

     […] if the supply of canes slackened at the mill, the field driver was flogged for not flogging the cane cutters.

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island‎^[2], London: Review, page 140:

     A college-educated Lenval wanted to know how so many white people come to speak so bad—low class and coarse as cane cutters.