For this reason, many did not leave when their work terms expired, but rather continued working on plantations or as merchants.

African slaves were brought to the islands to work on Portuguese plantations.

He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release.

Many Kandyan peasants worked on plantations for three or four months each year.

Most of them were set to work on plantations on the Caribbean coast.

Remember that not everyone worked on plantations as field workers or domestic servants.

They often put refugees from slavery back to work on plantations simply to avoid responsibility for them.

Native men now don conventional clothes when they work on large plantations or in the mines.

Children are being shipped off to work on plantations.

They also enslaved the native populations to work on plantations.