You'd want to check the survival rates among slaves (enslaved persons?) working sugar plantations on the islands. Using one's skill and smarts to secure a "responsible job" was one of the few means available to survive. If you were a cane cutter, you were a goner—just a matter of time.
Nods emphatically but I think that my point is that those plantations could not have run without the people with responsible jobs. American skilled workers were usually working for people on site that they knew.
Not sure what you mean by your last sentence. Are you saying Americans worked the island sugar plantations? Or making a distinction between slaves in America vs ones in the islands?
You'd want to check the survival rates among slaves (enslaved persons?) working sugar plantations on the islands. Using one's skill and smarts to secure a "responsible job" was one of the few means available to survive. If you were a cane cutter, you were a goner—just a matter of time.
Nods emphatically but I think that my point is that those plantations could not have run without the people with responsible jobs. American skilled workers were usually working for people on site that they knew.
Not sure what you mean by your last sentence. Are you saying Americans worked the island sugar plantations? Or making a distinction between slaves in America vs ones in the islands?
The latter