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TITLE Contract laborers on Honolulu dock DESCRIPTION Contract laborers on Honolulu dock "Contract laborers on Honolulu dock awaiting transportation to Hilo, ca. 1890. By 1892 Japanese comprised more than 65 percent of the plantation work force." Go For Broke CONTEXT "These people are on their way to the island of Hawaii where an extensive new sugar plantation was recently opened. They are brought to the islands under contract to work for a certain period of years." Bishop Museum CREDIT Courtesy of National Japanese American Historical Society DATE c. 1890 |
