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Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.
Afro-Panamanians are Panamanians of African descent. The population can be mainly broken into two categories: "Afro-Colonials", those descended from slaves brought to Panama during the colonial period; and "Afro-Antilleans", West Indian immigrant descendants with origins in Trinidad, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Belize, Barbados, and Jamaica, whose ancestors ...
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is a six-part documentary miniseries written and presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It aired for the first time on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the fall of 2013, beginning with episode 1, "The Black Atlantic (1500–1800)", on October 22, 8–9 p.m. ET on PBS, and every consecutive Tuesday through to episode 6, "A More Perfect Union (1968 ...
Created by damming Panama’s Chagres River, Gatún was the largest man-made lake on Earth when created in the early 1900s. Gatún tours travel out onto the canal’s lake artery to let tourists ...
The US-controlled canal quickly became a vital asset for American commerce and the US Navy.. Panama received a $10 million initial payment from the US for the territory followed by $250,000 each ...
By the time the United States acquired the rights to build the Canal in 1904, the area included a settlement at Folks River (called "Fox" River up to 1915), which consisted of "small, portable houses put up by the French and in bad condition," and "24 main buildings in three rows," between the railroad shops and the main line. There was also a ...
The Panama Canal is an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through Panama, saving ships thousands of miles and weeks of travel around the stormy, icy ...
Edmond Edward Wysinger was born in about 1816, the son of a Cherokee woman and a man of African descent. [2]Wysinger came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama with his enslavers Elizabeth Frances (née Burfoot) and Madison Walthall Sr., arriving around October 1849 — the height of the California Gold Rush.