Monthly Archives: February 2007

Panama Gold and the Promised Land


Our previous issues have been concerned with giving the reader a brief sketch of what it was like for my ancestors at the time in history to have arrived in the country of Panama. Those black men were all young, strong, healthy persons who showed great resistance to the adverse climate, and in large groups they came and kept coming way into the latter half of the twentieth century. These men did not only come from the island of Jamaica but from every island in the region of the West Indies to land in the mysterious Panama. Continue reading

A History of the Jamaicans and the Gold Rush of 1849

Map of the Panama Route.

The riches of Panama were rumored on the Island of Jamaica as much as they were on every other island in the Caribbean Ponto, driving every young black man into the frenzied fever of wanting to leave home, and all for the adventure of it all. In fact, the very riches that those young deluded men dreamed of would later prove to be a mirage. But, young men of African descent had to dream dreams of unheard of riches for it was now the middle of the XIX century and if only to see that old Canal being built was unimaginable. Continue reading