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Dying to Better Themselves

West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal

Dying to Better Themselves( )
Author: Senior, Olive
ISBN:978-976-640-457-4
Publication Date:Aug 2014
Publisher:University of the West Indies Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $60.00
Book Description:

The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation" in 1950s England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850s who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular migration that would transform the islands economically, socially and politically well into the twentieth century.

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