Most of them were set to work in mines and plantations, mainly on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts.
Excluded from this group are persons who worked in fields, gardens and plantations for a cash wage, but who had no stake in land.
Many of the survivors were forced to work in European plantations and mines.
The cultivation system tied peasants to their land, forcing them to work in government-owned plantations for 60 days of the year.
The slaves would be forced to work in mines and plantations.
Enslaved women could also be found working in the shops, homes, fields, and plantations of every American colony.
Millions of children worked in colonial agricultural plantations, mines and domestic service industries.
Some children have to work in mines or in plantations, or they have to fight wars as child soldiers, for no pay.
During the British colonial era, Britain facilitated the migration of Indian workers to work in plantations.
They arrived in Honolulu, on December 23, 1900, and were sent to work in different plantations on Hawaii's four islands.