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Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora - Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover, New)
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Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora - Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover, New)
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"From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich
hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite;
diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national
development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records,
as well as oral accounts of the labor migrants along with colonial
officials and mining companies' information stored in National
Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S and the Library of
Congress, the study situates miners into the historical structure
of the country's economic development. It analyzes the workers
attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of "order and
progress," and how they shaped their lives in positive ways rather
than becoming mere victims of colonialism. In this contentious
plantation society plagued by adversarial relations between the
economic elites and the laboring class, in addition to producing
the strategically important bauxite for the aviation era of World
Wars I&II, for almost a century the workers braved the
ecologically hostile and sometimes deadly environments of the gold
and diamond fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana"--
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