Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii

Puerto Rican migration to Hawaii began when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devastated by two hurricanes in 1899. The devastation caused a worldwide shortage in sugar and a huge demand for the product from Hawaii. Consequently, Hawaiian sugarcane plantation owners began to recruit the jobless, but experienced, laborers from Puerto Rico. In thirteen separate groups, 5,883 Puerto Rican men, women and children traveled by ship, train, then ship again, to the islands of Hawaii to begin their new lives on the sugar plantations.

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