They used the men to clear the fields. Poor men, primitive, grunting and defecating as they worked. One ran into the crowd of cuious onlookers and tried to piss on them. He was quickly herded in. It was my fist time back for years. We seemed to be going backwards. They called the new imports bulls. After all that i what they were; strong muscular bulls brought in to work the fields.
The onlookers cheered as the new herd began work, clearing the cane with their cutlasses. The guards stood at respectable distances, laughing ,smoking ,talking to one another over distance but never taking their eyes away from the herd. The officials saw nothing wrong in using labour from another planet. The men worked, in return they were fed and allowed to gaze on the priveleges of a cultured society not that they understood any of it. I remember reading some planets history books where they had similiar workers, but it never made sense to me because they sent them out to fight and get killed. If i remember my history I think the planet is just a carcass now.