Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration from Barbados

Authors

Sharon Milagro Marshall

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Event Description

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 fueled 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 tiff 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.

Identifier

FIDC006446

Document Type

Flyer

Event Date

9-27-2017

City

Coral Gables

Recommended Citation

Milagro Marshall, Sharon, "Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration from Barbados" (2017). Cuban Research Institute Events. 332.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/332