Why is plantation life so hard and why is it not worth much?Immigrant workers and planters were working and living on the sugar plantations.It was in Hawaii, during the mid 1800s and it was to fill the need of workers in the fields.That was started because there aren’t enough people in Hawaii due to diseases and plantation businesses were booming. They offered a place to live, food, and money, just live a normal job. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was awful.The working conditions were frustrating and stressful. Genders and different cultures were not treated equally and nicely.The living conditions were terrible and in one small little hut made of grass you would have to share it with like forty people.It was very unsanitary and they had to give up living with family and in their own house for three years and little pay.(stated from the article “Plantation Life”) …show more content…
They lived in crowded, unsanitary work camps and shopped at plantation stores. They are bound to labor for three years at wages of only $18 a month plus housing, water, fuel, and medical care.A plantation official placed a bango, a metal tag with a number stamped on it,around the neck of each man, like a lei every time someone came to work in the
A slave, Betty Abernathy’s, account of plantation life, “We lived up in Perry County. The white folk had a nice big house an’ they was a number of poor little cabins fo’ us folks. Our’s was a one room, built of logs, an’ had a puncheon floor. ‘Ole ‘Massa’ had a number of slaves but we didden have no school, ‘ner church an’ mighty little merry-makin’. Mos’ly we went barefooted the yeah ‘round.”
People back in the 1800s that worked in the plantations got paid only $3. People got labor contracts for 5 years to work in the plantation and then go back home to see their family. Some people wanted to stay there, so they signed for another 5 year contract and never went back to see their family. In the 1800s, Hawaii need more plantation workers to make more sugar, so they imported foreign workers. The plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was not easy because they had harsh living conditions, working conditions were not easy, and the different races did different things.
In Hawaii, in the 1800s, King Kamehameha the fourth and the planters needed to import foreign workers to make more sugar. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was not easy. They had harsh living conditions, working conditions were difficult to work in, and racial differences made it unfair. Living condition was harsh because those who worked on the plantation had to live in a 10 foot-square room with a kitchen according to source #1. In source #1
Life of slaves meant working basically non stop until sundown six days a week and having food sometimes not suitable for a person to eat. Plantation slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture. Life on large plantations with a cruel overseer was
A choice to either give up their family and country to work in labor or to stay home and live their normal lives. Some people from different countries would accept the first choice. They left their home, only bringing a few valuables to Hawaii and to work in a sugar plantation to fill the need of workers and to get a job in the booming business. But only in the future, people would know that plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was very difficult for the immigrant workers. The living conditions in Hawaii were crowded and unsanitary, the working conditions were difficult, and race differences didn’t make a fair share of the jobs.
The majority of slaves bought were used for labor in the owner’s plantation, only a selected few worked on the domestic duties of the household. The slave's job type determined their quality of food, clothing and shelter they would be provided. Domestic slaves worked in the house and their duties included: cleaning, cooking and tending to their owners demands. Working inside the house these slaves were usually better feed, given hand me down from their owners and living quarters were usually within the home and nicer than field slaves received. Field slaves would tend to the needs of the plantation which included harvesting crops, animal care and any outdoor chore that need to be completed.
Their churches were violated and they were forced to live in the ghettos. Although the clergymen claim that the black community was treated fairly, the blacks had no respect. They had a horrible educational system, some time they may not have had a teacher in the classroom. In Women by Alice Walker, she conveys how women were only expected to to be a housewife. They weren’t allowed to have and education or have a job, only cook and clean for the man of the house.
(Robinson) The men were beaten and killed and the women were raped. They were expected to work day and night with no compensation. After slavery was abolished, they were still treated with hate and disrespect.
Have you ever wondered what it was like working on Oahu, Hawaii in the 1800’s? In this essay, i will be writing what it was like back then, i will be writing about living conditions, working conditions, and gender differences. The immigrants, workers, planters (owners),came to work and live on the sugar plantations in Hawaii 1800s. The reason why they came was to fill workers because there was not enough people in Hawaii due to disease and plantation/ business was booming. The workers were offered a place to live and food and money.
On rice plantations, the conditions were harsh and the labour was extremely hard. Due to the physical stress of harvesting rice, the mortality rate of the slaves was often high. The slaves in Georgia endured terrible punishments
They had us working in the fields as if we were slaves except there was no Harriet Tubman to bring us to the promised land. The farmers and I were not given the right items needed to work out in the blistering hot sun. When working on these plantations, I would witness farmers getting infectious diseases, and they had us overcrowded in one area. Working out on hot summer days would cause my skin to become irritated. I would start getting hot flashes and the people who were monitoring us did not do anything.
The manufacturers were faced with maintaining a high crop yield, but luckily the Caribbean islands provided an ideal location for growing cane sugar. Once plantations were constructed yet another issue confronted the owners, cheap labor. For the plantations to produce large enough quantities of sugar to fulfill the demand, many slaves were necessary; thus, a successful slave industry arose with the aid of these wealthy entrepreneurs who hoped to own successful plantations. The absentee owners in England, Spain, and France became increasingly wealthy as the demand and industry for sugar
Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800-1900s was arduous because living conditions were terrible, working conditions were grueling, and different races were treated very differently. First, the living conditions in Hawaii in the 1800s were close to inhabitable and terrible. According to source 1, most plantation workers were miserable. They lived in work camps that were both crowded and unsanitary. Usually, two couples had to share a 10-foot-square room had one kitchen.
Not only were the working conditions bad, but also the living conditions were just as harmful. Many women who worked in the house went through rape and nothing was said about it. Douglass talked in his narrative about how women were taken advantage of and no one blinked an eye to it because if white men rapped these women it was not a crime which is the total opposite in today’s society. Also on page six of Douglass’s narrative it said how the white men would rape and beat women and get pleasure out of their screams. Men in this era were taught to treat women as useless objects and it was easy for them to take advantage of them because they were a lot smaller than them.
The working minorities were looked down upon as many thought that the jobs held by minorities should belong to white men and women. As shown in To Kill a Mockingbird, black were considered almost an entire different community. Very few had jobs outside of the farm, with one exception being Calpurnia. Family’s had struggles during the 1930’s as it was very difficult to find a good