Tea

In 1962, The great Britain left Jamaica signifying the end of an era. With British Imperialism closing and public awareness of inhumane treatment of former Britain's colonies rising, tea workers' fortunes seemed to have changed for better. Britain's former colonies got their nations back but British have left the colonies too fast and too soon leaving her former colonies with nothing but poverty and mountains of problems. Tea workers since the 1600s were not directly hired by the westerners. The general public's concern were white westerners oppressing their colonists but in reality, cruelties that the workers faced came directly from the tea harvesters who had the same color of skin as the workers. When the British left her colonies, overseers of the tea harvest farms became the masters which were only reserved for the white westerners before. For the overseers of the tea harvest farms, end of British imperial rule was good but for the workers, Nothing has changed since the first shipment of tea were shipped to the West in 1610. Inhumane conditions continued while the image of tea trade tricked consumers into thinking that tea workers are happy for their new found independence.