Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration from Barbados
written by Sharon Milagro Marshall, 1956- (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies Press, 2016), 238 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Barbadians were among the thousands of British West Indians who migrated to Cuba in the early twentieth century in search of work. They were drawn there by employment opportunities fuelled largely by US investment in Cuban sugar plantations. Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration from Barbados is their story. The migrants were citizens of the British Empire, and their ill-treatment in Cuba led to a diplomatic squabble between British and Cuban authorities. The author draws from contemporary newspaper articles, official records, journals and books to set the historical contexts which initiated this intra-Caribbean migratory wave. Through oral histories, it also gives voice to the migrants’ compelling narratives of their experience in Cuba. One of the oral histories recorded in the book is that of the author’s mother, who was born in Cuba of Barbadian parents.
- Field of Interest
- Black Studies
- Author
- Sharon Milagro Marshall, 1956-
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2016 Sharon Milagro Marshall
- Content Type
- Book
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 238
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Place Published / Released
- Kingston, Kingston Parish
- Subject
- Black Studies, Diversity, Migration, International relations, Migration, Immigration and emigration, Reino Unido, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Britain, Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom, Cuba, Barbados, British, Cubans, Barbadians
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Reino Unido, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Britain, Kingdom of Great Britain
