Just 13, and Working Risky 12-Hour Shifts in the Tobacco Fields (Published 2014)

PINK HILL, N.C. — On many mornings, as tobacco plants tower around her, Saray Cambray Alvarez pulls a black plastic garbage bag over her 13-year-old body to protect her skin from leaves dripping with nicotine-tinged dew. When Saray and other workers — including several more teenagers — get to the …