Living Conditions In Plantation Life

Have you ever wondered how life was living on a plantation? The type of environment you would have to live in, your job, and the kind of people you were surrounded by? What’s your perception above it this topic, would you work on a plantation? This event affected people differently, some people included lunas or the plantation workers, bosses, and planters( plantation owners). A plantation life in Hawaii wasn’t easy in the 1800’s for immigrant workers, but dreadful and horrific during the sugar plantation era. Some reasons why I believe this is, they had terrible living conditions,the working conditions/ and jobs were terribly difficult, and plantation hey had terrible living conditions. Continue to read the essay to learn more about the topic!

First, Living conditions were terrible. From the article “ Plantation Life” the first article states “They lived in crowded, unsanitary work camps and shopped at plantation stores. A day in the fields usually lasted 10 hours. A day in the mills was 12 hours.” This is an important detail to include because it shows that plantation workers did not have the best living environment, proving that they weren 't appreciated and their bosses didn’t try to fix the situation. Another supporting evidence is the article states “ “Their new homes were on parched fields with little shade, surrounded by acres and acres of sugarcane that needed to be stripped and cut by hand. Conditions were crowded.” Another supporting detail is, from the