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Paperback Panama Money in Barbados, 1900-1920: 1900-1920 Book
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ISBN: 1572333065

ISBN13: 9781572333062

Panama Money in Barbados, 1900-1920: 1900-1920

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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...

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