Plantation Life In The 1800s

Many people worked in the Hawaiian Plantations, but were known to be harsh and a job that rarely wanted. They would be in the sun all day, peeling sugar and getting what it felt like a third degree burn. Overall, Plantation life was not easy in the 1800s due to unsanitary living conditions, harsh working conditions, and ethnic segregation. Unsanitary living conditions is one of the worst part of a plantation life. The houses were first made with grass of wood. It had little shade and everyday, the houses were beaten with sunshine. How would have you liked your house sticky and muggy because they had no shade? Also, some of the houses were really dilapidated and had unpainted wood on the outside. In the inside, they has brown dirt floors to sleep and walk on. How terrible treatment is that! Even worst, the houses were small, making it very crowded. They can put around forty men in the house, depending on the event. The plantation workers had no personal space to themselves and were cramped in a small space. That wasn’t the only thing that affected the
Sugar has really sharp leaves, which can make cuts. That is exactly what the workers got from working with the sugar plant. Oozing blisters and deep cuts were made on the hands from peeling and stripping the sugar cane’s sharp leaves. In the plantation, they also had to deal with wasps living in the plantation. In Hawaii, the warm weather is perfect for female wasps to breed. Bites from wasps can be harmful, more when you are harming their home environment. The wasps lived in the plantation or by the plantation. They also have to keep on working, and they did not tolerated stopping or slowing down. If they did, the bosses would whip them with black snake whips, creating pain in the area of the body hit. The workers didn’t have any break, only lunch, which made them have little