HTST 535 Lecture Notes - Gleaning, Paubrasilia, Guanches
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1730 20,000,000+ pounds not highly time sensitive rice is somewhere between tobacco and sugar in terms of physical difficulty also in terms of environment warmer than virginia, but not a fully tropical environment more physically demanding than tobacco, but less than sugar gang system workers work under direct supervision daily routines of the group synchronized activities while working managed. 01/08/2014 ties into on eof the themes bergad talks about coffee is fairly straightforward trees take a few years to grow before can start harvesting then, pick coffee beans done more on the task system how many coffee beans could be picked drying and hulling not too much work to process slaves mostly africans later, internal slave trade (post 1850) brings people from other parts of brazil coffee work requirements health conditions somewhere in between tobacco and sugar, closer to cotton but not quite as good.