On Monday, December 16, 2013 9:36:12 AM UTC-8, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Interesting Eric E. > > I few years ago I was in Hawaii and I went on a tour of a sugar plantation > there. The tour guide did say that the first wave of laborers were Chinese > bachelors. And China is on a continent. Being a bunch of bachelors who > weren't used to an island environment created a bit of a dilemma. I don't > remember the tour guide's exact words anymore, but being bachelors they > partied too much after hours, rabble roused, went stir-crazy due to being > on islands, etc. So the plantation owners thought that bringing over > entire families who were used to living on islands would be much more > calming. So they initially recruited from the Azores and Madeira, which > was successful, then from the Philippines. >
Correct. The plantation owners realized that a lot of these single men would (usually) fulfill their contract and immediately return home with what they've earned. This was after they began recruiting from Japan. So they realized that recruiting people by families would allow the laborers not to leave and continue to work. So that's what they did with Portugal and found that those who lived on islands were well suited to remain in the Hawaiian islands. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
