Why were bakeries so deadly then? How could cooking bread be worse than being in the sugarcane fields under the hot beating sun all day while being whipped and mutilated by a malevolent tyrannical master?
 
Why were bakeries so deadly then? How could cooking bread be worse than being in the sugarcane fields under the hot beating sun all day while being whipped and mutilated by a malevolent tyrannical master?
Because instead, they were locked in what was essentially a giant furnance, where they were basically slowly boiled alive as they were forced to make bread.

It was said to be so horrible slaves and serfs preferred even the haciendas and plantations over that.
 
i guess this part applies to every business venture in the colonies.
Oh, you have no idea...

And it spared nobody. Wether you were a black slave, a native serf, or even an impoverished criollo white or mestizo mixed race peon... All were exploited, all were worked half to death, all were whipped if they fell out of line, and those who were supposed to be paid often had huge taxes levied on them which cut into their income... Sure, it never reached the hellish conditions of Brazil, the Caribbean or ole' Dixie, but it was still pretty hellish on it's own.
 
You see, when I envisoned a bakery I saw this
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Rather than this
 
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