Clayton Endicott
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I was there last month. Tripped me out because most of the Dominicans I saw were straight up black. Oddly enough it was mostly the women that were lighter.
Countries You Didn't Know Were Full Of Black Ppl
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TheKongoEmpire
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West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
May 14, the DC premiere of the film Panama Stories will be presented at IDB headquarters. The film will feature five stories based on the lives of everyday people affected by the Canal over the course of 100 years. Producers Pablo Schverdfinger and Pituka Ortega as well as Jamaican writer Olive Senior will be at the showing.
In 1833, the British Emancipation Act abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. With the onset of the construction of the Panama Railroad in 1850, thousands of Caribbean West Indians began to migrate en masse in search of a better life. Caribbean West Indians came to Panama in the 1850’s to help build the railroads and an even larger wave began to arrive in the 1880’s to begin construction on the canal. It is recorded that under French control of the canal project 12,875 laborers were on the payrolls of which 10,844 were British West Indians: 9,005 Jamaicans, 1,344 Barbadians and 495 St. Lucians1.
Caribbean West Indians lured by the opportunity of lucrative work and the promise of wealth were confronted by a very different reality upon arrival in Panama. Workers held many different jobs in the canal zone and they were faced with appalling living conditions, disease, and rugged terrain. The foreign owned corporations building the Panama Canal established segregated communities which later caused conflicts in Spanish speaking Catholic Panama. The Caribbean West Indians were English speaking Protestants who were of African descent yet class conscious British subjects. In 1920, six years after the completion of the Canal, authorities estimated that there were 70,000 West Indians in Panama.
But the clash of cultures, a 1926 restrictive immigration law and the Great Depression caused many of these West Indians to be on the move again.
Do you know some of the descendants and where they are today? Could you be one of them?
[1] Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, Author, Olive Senior – September 30, 2014
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TheKongoEmpire
A Wilsonian Garveyite
I think I made a thread on it. I shared my album too.
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https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=RWs5SG1CR3gxbGhiVHhZV0xoUlJFSkZmaTlkZ2R3
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What part? guangzhou?
And by what I’ve read, China is more racist then any European country save Italy.
me too...i was
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Whaaaat? I’ve read that most of the African migrants were in Southern China. Also heard that people in Beijing we’re more “snobbish” then in the south. fukk, I just need to go there.
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All Belizean in the states are virtually all black but I was speaking on tremont. I remember my boy from uptown who i did an interview for a class project told me in the interview that tremont was filled with black Honduran crips.
but I do know Honduran is a large group in the Bronx.
my friend from uptown didn’t like Hondurans from Tremont. He’s Jamaican
I’m Beijing?me too...i was
that's where I was Guangzhou...
... i jus wanted to see my beats by liu kang spot
i didn't notice racism...on the cool ...not like i was looking 4 em
nppl asked me every 5 mins to take a picture with them when that gold grin sparkled..
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Of course there’s racism… like anywhere
but when I was there I didn’t experience anything I doubt it’s more racist than some of these Nazi hotbed anti immigrant countries in Eastern Europe.
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good stuff...you were way more in there than i was
Oman.