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Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Dying to Better Themselves West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Author: Olive Senior
The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation" in 1950's England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850's who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789766404574
ISBN-10: 9766404577
Publication Date: 9/1/2014
Pages: 440
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Publisher: Univ of the West Indies PR
Book Type: Paperback
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