Hardships of Plantation Life

• Abusive plantation Lunas
• Weather- Heat, Rain,etc
• Pay was low
• Sleep hours cut short
• Each ethnic group was paid at different rates
• Workers resorted to violence against the Lunas
• Disagreements with their spouses
• Women had to laundry, take care of child, sew clothes, make food, work in plantation
• Poor Housing
• Plantation work was difficult it involved hoeing, planting, and carrying sugar cane