Sentences with phrase «sugar plantation workers»

It is an authentic community whose friendly long - time residents go back generations to sugar plantation workers who were immigrants largely from Japan and the Philippines.

It is most remembered by local families for its pig farm, in which hogs were raised to feed the many sugar plantation workers.

This is an interesting read for those interested in the full Japanese experience in Hawaii, from the early arrivals of sugar plantation workers to mod

This is an interesting read for those interested in the full Japanese experience in Hawaii, from the early arrivals of sugar plantation workers to modern sports figures and politicians.

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Its roots are in the experience of 19th - century sugar - cane plantation workers, who in pidgin English told stories of common suffering and hope.

I discovered that Shinto had come to Hawaii with Japanese workers looking for jobs on the sugar plantations a little more than a century ago.

Visits to the workers» quarters of five Dominican plantations were enough to show us that the laborers were tied to the sugar fields as a goat is roped to a stake.

necdotal evidence that cancer is rarer among sugar cane plantation workers who consume this substance regularly.

The article also quotes anecdotal evidence that cancer is rarer among sugar cane plantation workers who consume this substance regularly.