"In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and …
"In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and …
In this work, the author takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant Black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the Black internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the 20th century.