Source: Madison Iszler, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/8/17


Jacqueline Castillo was 7 when she started picking tobacco in Wayne County, about 55 miles southeast of Raleigh. Castillo, her mother and four older siblings would wake up around 5:30 a.m., pack a lunch and wait for a van to pick them up and take them to the fields.With a permanently dislocated left arm, Castillo struggled to pluck the white flowers off the top of the leafy green plants. She often experienced splitting headaches, nausea...

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