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Dying to Better Themselves

by Olive Senior, University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), Press Staff

2014 440 pages eng

The epic story of the involvement of the tiny islands of the West Indies in providing the work force for the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914) and before that, the Panama Railroad (1850-1855), and the French attempt under de Lesseps to build the Panama Canal (1881-1889). Written by a West…

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