Mostly West Africans, the native Carib Indians were exterminated rather quickly.
Phnom Penh
Agricultural Workers Organization was created on 1915-04-15.
After the indigenous workers in the Caribbean islands were nearly wiped out by diseases, the Spanish turned to African slaves as a source of labor due to their immunity to certain diseases and their experience in agricultural work. This marked the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas.
9/10 of the workers were Caribbean from the West Indies
They were not FORCED to. A fraction of US workers did so voluntarily after it became legal. Most US workers have never been in unions.
It reduced the number of farmers a country needed to produce enough food.
Soon after Columbus first arrived, there was almost no native left anywhere in the Caribbean. The Conquistadores were forced to begin importing black slaves from Africa to replace the natives they were wiping out. As slaves, these people were forced to adopt the religion of their owners.
The Spanish used captive Africans as a source of labor for tasks such as mining, agriculture, and domestic work. They were forced into slavery and treated as property by the Spanish colonizers.
C-A-R-D-I: Caribbean Agricultural Development Institute
Forest and conservation workers
Yes usually in the agricultural industry
In 1955, roughly 33% of non-agricultural workers were unionized. This period marked a high point for labor union membership in the United States.