What Is Plantation Life In Hawaii In The 1800s

Do you think that plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was easy? In the 1800’s Hawaii had began to create sugar plantations. Plantation owners, called lunas, needed to get more workers to keep up with the demand for sugar because sugar was booming. They solved this worker shortage by importing more foreign workers from around the world. I think plantations life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was very difficult. The living conditions were very harsh, working conditions were very cruel, and gender differences were very unnecessary . The plantation workers had to work extremely hard and for a very long time.
The first reason why I think that plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was hard is because the living conditions were miserable and the houses were very small. According to source one, in the house, the workers only got a small kitchen and a homemade stove. Furthermore, the house was only 10 square feet and sometimes, as many as 40 people had to fit onto one room. Moreover, they lived in small unsanitary work camps and only could shop at small plantations stores.
They plantations condition itself was bad and to add on to that, the plantation bosses, or lunas, were even more harsh. The state of the fields were bad because according to source one, they were infested with wasps. The sugarcane they had to cut was also sharp so the workers got cuts and blisters all day. The worst job they had was to clear the weeds. Because the weeds are so close to the ground and not tall, they had to work with their backs bent over the entire day which was stated in source one. In addition to this, if workers slowed down their work or showed signs of not working, the lunas constantly whipped their backs and this was stated in source two. Another detail in source two is that the workers had to carry the sugarcane on their backs to