The American notion of "Manifest Destiny" was embodied in this painting by John Gast.
The French loss in the Panama Canal economic adventure would not deter the colonialist competitive spirit, which had set out in search of new territories and new people to enslave at will. The competition between the white races of Europe and the Americans from the United States in the late XIX century seemed to have reached an impasse. Continue reading
Hand car ride along the old Panama Rail Road about 1856
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The intermission of the canal works between the year of 1889 and 1904 had the researchers following the Westindians to the region of Bocas Del Toro where an American by the name of Minor C. Keith, along with his brothers and several relatives, had been running a thriving operation which he incorporated as the United Fruit Company in 1885 (Adams 1914)(Stephens 1887). Continue reading
From the very beginning, the West Indians were part of Panam'a culture and history.
In upcoming articles we will show that the issues that I have been covering did not only affect West Indians as a group of people of African descent, but they have left a strain on our Latino-American culture, and have also affected us in our psychology as a people who have a large part in Latin American history. It is our hope that these articles would stir most young people the world over to seek peace and to work to eradicate racism and classism. Continue reading
