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Isbn 10: 1572333065

Isbn 13: 9781572333062

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On January 18, 1905, hundreds of black men left Barbados aboard a steamer for panama. They were the first Barbadian contract workers dispatched to dog the Panama Canal. In the next decade, 45,000 Barbadian men and women - one-quarter of the islands human population - traveled to the isthmus. They sent home and brought back to Barbados funds in excess of 1 million. The surge of money created irrevocable social changes on Barbados, undermining elements of the island's antiquated sugar economy. In a broad sense, the era of "Panama money" represented a cultural watershed between the island's quasi-feudal past and the modern Barbados of today.

In analyzing the changes created by Panama money on Barbados, Bonham Richardson combines oral history into an important contribution to Caribbean social history. He presents his study from the vantage point of the Barbadian working people and shows that the creation of the Panama Canal, conventionally viewed as a U.S. technological triumph, was of momentous social significance for the Afro-Caribbean laborers who built it.

Número de páginas :308
Isbn 10 :1572333065
Isbn 13 :9781572333062
Encadernação Panama Money in Barbados, 1900-1920:Capa Comum
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