Sentence examples for imported to work from inspiring English sources

African slaves were imported to work in first coffee and then sugar plantations; with the abolition of slavery in 1848, indentured labourers from mainland Southeast Asia, India, and Eastern Africa were brought in.

In some areas of South Carolina and Georgia the African Americans who had been imported to work the rice and cotton plantations developed a contact language called Gullah, or Geechee, that made use of many structural and lexical features of their native languages.

And of course we've got the whole question of how children are being imported to work".

"We've had this example of domestic slavery but people are being imported to work, almost for nothing, in industry," he told BBC Breakfast.

"Why was he imported to New York, to work on this otherwise modest commission?" Mr. Adams wonders.

In addition, between 1864 and 1939 some 60,000 indentured labourers were imported to construct public works and to work on plantations, ships, wharves, and mines and in commerce and domestic service.

The floral prints in the Miu Miu show seemed to be a very knowing reference to the floral prints of Hawaiian shirts, specifically the ones whose patterns were subtly Orientalized when Japanese workers were first imported to the islands to work in the sugar cane fields.

Those successes brought Berkeley to the attention of Hollywood, and producer Samuel Goldwyn imported him to work on the choreography for comedian Eddie Cantor's film Whoopee! (1930), which had been a successful show produced by Flo Ziegfeld.

The Dutch established New Amsterdam in the early 1600's and immediately imported Africans to work on farms and public works like the fortress wall from which Wall Street gets its name.

He quickly discovered that a major problem was the use of braceros: Mexican nationals imported temporarily to work in the fields, originally as an emergency measure during the Second World War.

Yet an eerie continuity became visible in the postwar years, as German scientists were imported to America and began working for their former enemies; the resulting technologies of mass destruction exceeded Hitler's darkest imaginings.