The Hardest Job in America

"This is the way we treated them. This was their American experience," says CNN's John Sutter. "They stripped them naked, they peered into every corner of their body to make sure that they were physically capable of doing so." The men would grab cane with one arm and slash down with the smoosh head in order to cut through it. Many did not make it through a season. 'I don't even know how to describe the places in which they were relieving themselves,' writes writer/journalist Tom Charity.