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Like the miner, the moonshiner in one tale "was full of pride and hardheaded;" "he believed that he dominated the mountain;" he was "young and robust."(79) In another, "his solitude of the free man, free of feminine chains, allowed him to be a rebel and a vagabond." Like many miners, he had travelled and labored in the northern nitrate pampa and had "shared his life with the hardened and vigorous men that cities and countryside throw deep into the mine."(80)

They often labored ten or twelve hours a day; for most, vacations were unknown.

Identifying trends that closely resemble patterns evident on other Jamaican sugar plantations of the era, Dunn concludes that "virtually every one of [the women] labored in the cane fields, that most of them did this work for many years, and that collectively they performed much of the hardest sugar labor," in the process suffering impaired fertility and shortened life expectancy.

Those of German, Irish, and mixed nationality labored extensively in the field, especially at corn harvest, and often took responsibility for the milking and some animal care.