Jamaican plantation workers- United Fruit Company

[evanovitch]

Re: Jamaican plantation workers- United Fruit Company

sorry i got carried away but i love reading dis paper.... the sources listed immediately above should also help....our history is fascinating and i continue to love researching and reading about it.....good luck

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">But by 1910 the Jamaican community of Limon had developed a complex social life of churches, newspapers, mutual aid societies, and lodges, all outside of Company control.</div></div>


Guess who edited a paper there ???? in 1910...

Marcus Garvey...La Nacion... Note also Chomsky misses that important nugget....

This is why I have a certain level of contempt for the left wing activists...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> This culture of resistance encompassed several apparently contradictory elements: a British identity and a faith in the British Crown as the protector of the slave or worker's interests; involvement in Protestant Non-Conformist sects; and belief and participation in African-based religious forms.(4)</div></div>

This is also a reason why I am ambivalent about the crown...their role at times has been in our interest. Garvey wrote letters to the crown from Costa Rica and urged West Indians to fight on their behalf WWI . Bogle appealed to the crown and when the crown kicked out the assembly it was celebrated in Jamaica..... As for those who called our obeah beleifs primitive... it has been part of us as a instrument of liberation...

And Guess who was that Glasspole pickni.. Mi ole man did tell mi dis....

Thanks Evan u awoke all kind of memories for me...

As well as why as a beleiver in the death of the gods why I take umbridge with those who attacj the church and the belief in god

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK, don't know whether this is the right subforum to post this, but-

So, I'm writing a story. It's alternate history (dieselpunk) set in Honduras in the 1940s-50s and the plot involves the United Fruit Company (UFCO) who controlled banana plantations in the Caribbean lowlands of Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala as well as Colombia and the Dominican Republic. UFCO contracted a lot of West Indian workers- mostly Jamaican- to work its banana plantations. Anyone heard about this before?
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United Fruit does a lot of business for the CIA in South America.

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
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United Fruit does a lot of business for the CIA in South America. </div></div>

I think its the other way around...

[mangoskin]

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sounds like a good movie plot

[Wahalla]

Re: Jamaican plantation workers- United Fruit Company

Garvey in Limon

Look at page 37

[Morwen Edhelwen]

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Thanks, Wahalla. Will look at that.

[SandiF]

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Come on Morwen, not to detract from Wahalla....
....but what about Thank you, evanovitch?... just a thought of politeness

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks, Wahalla. Will look at that. </div></div>

[Wahalla]

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something else just came to me. Ruben Blades claimed his Grandmother was St Kits. In a documentary by Linton Kwesi Johnson on Caribean music influence. The documentary was in the 80s.

u said alternative history like Turtledove?

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Come on Morwen, not to detract from Wahalla....
....but what about Thank you, evanovitch?... just a thought of politeness

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks, Wahalla. Will look at that. </div></div> </div></div>

True. she got me excited

[queenb]

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My grandmother's sister married a man and lived in Nicaragua. Their last name was Wilson, so he might have also been Jamaican.

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">But by 1910 the Jamaican community of Limon had developed a complex social life of churches, newspapers, mutual aid societies, and lodges, all outside of Company control.</div></div>


Guess who edited a paper there ???? in 1910...

Marcus Garvey...La Nacion... Note also Chomsky misses that important nugget....

This is why I have a certain level of contempt for the left wing activists...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> This culture of resistance encompassed several apparently contradictory elements: a British identity and a faith in the British Crown as the protector of the slave or worker's interests; involvement in Protestant Non-Conformist sects; and belief and participation in African-based religious forms.(4)</div></div>

This is also a reason why I am ambivalent about the crown...their role at times has been in our interest. Garvey wrote letters to the crown from Costa Rica and urged West Indians to fight on their behalf WWI . Bogle appealed to the crown and when the crown kicked out the assembly it was celebrated in Jamaica..... As for those who called our obeah beleifs primitive... it has been part of us as a instrument of liberation...

And Guess who was that Glasspole pickni.. Mi ole man did tell mi dis....

Thanks Evan u awoke all kind of memories for me...

As well as why as a beleiver in the death of the gods why I take umbridge with those who attacj the church and the belief in god

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den y u tink mi highlight di lass name...

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Come on Morwen, not to detract from Wahalla....
....but what about Thank you, evanovitch?... just a thought of politeness

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks, Wahalla. Will look at that. </div></div> </div></div>

a so di ting set boo...if mi did a cuss a one mi would get comment .....tonx fi di looking out....i got a chance to put it out dere cause i do love history...

[Gen]

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she always ignore people a suh she roll

a nuh nothing she a guh want help when she come back next month

furthermore mi wouldan like know why she malice off the major search engines and refuse fi use them fi research her tings.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Come on Morwen, not to detract from Wahalla....
....but what about Thank you, evanovitch?... just a thought of politeness

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks, Wahalla. Will look at that. </div></div> </div></div>

[j-kid]

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Yeah, dat was ah bit cold blooded of a discount, considering the amount of contribution the lady did put forth.

Guess shi needs fi learn ah bit mor bout wi customs, besides jus har immediate needs.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Come on Morwen, not to detract from Wahalla....
....but what about Thank you, evanovitch?... just a thought of politeness

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks, Wahalla. Will look at that. </div></div> </div></div>