
Black Labor Migration In Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 (Working In The Americas)
In the late nineteenth century, many Central American governments and countries sought to fill low-paying jobs and develop their economies by recruiting black American and West Indian laborers. Frederick Opie offers a revisionist interpretation of these workers, who were often depicted as simple victims with little, if any, enduring legacy.The Guatemalan government sought to build an extensive rai...
Series: Working in the Americas
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: University Press of Florida (September 15, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780813044422
ISBN-13: 978-0813044422
ASIN: 0813044421
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1036301
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road system in the 1880s, and actively recruited foreign labor. For poor workers of African descent, immigrating to Guatemala was seen as an opportunity to improve their lives and escape from the racism of the Jim Crow U.S. South and the French and British colonial Caribbean.Using primary and secondary sources as well as ethnographic data, Opie details the struggles of these workers who were ultimately inspired to organize by the ideas of Marcus Garvey. Regularly suffering class- and race-based attacks and persecution, black laborers frequently met such attacks with resistance. Their leverage--being able to shut down the railroad--was crucially important to the revolutionary movements in 1897 and 1920.
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