Ships Bringing Spanish Laborers to Hawaii
Maria Ponce
S.S. Heliopolis Manifest: Spain to Hawaii
When the sugar cane and fruit companies needed laborers to work their plantations in Hawaii, they turned to indentured servitude. In return for 3 years' work on the plantation, a company would pay for the laborer's transportation to Hawaii and provide housing. My great-great-uncle, Francisco Peres Salado, arrived in just that manner. You can see…
View S.S. Heliopolis Manifest: Spain to Hawaii »Maria Anaya Ponce’s Life Story
As told to daughter Carmen Ponce Sforzini and grand-daughter Charlotte Sforzini Arton, May 27 & 31, 1972.
View Maria Anaya Ponce’s Life Story »Anaya-Ponce
Many of my Spanish ancestors were granted free passage from Spain to Hawaii in return for laboring in the sugar cane fields or fruit plantations. My great-grandmother Maria Anaya (later Maria Ponce) journeyed on the SS Heliopolis in 1907.
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They Came From Spain
Julianne Ortega blogs about her family’s emigration story, the S.S. Heliopolis, and life on a Hawaii sugar plantation.
View They Came From Spain »Carmen Beatrice Ponce Sforzini
Ethnicity/Culture Carmen is of pure Spanish heritage, as both of her parents were born in Spain. Carmen’s mother, Mary Anaya, was born and raised in a small village of white adobe hillside homes in Benagalbon, which was founded in 1776. It lies in close proximity to Malaga in southern Spain. Carmen’s father, Francisco Ponce, was…
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