Remembering “The Contract”: Recollections of Bahamians
Between 1943 and 1965 an estimated 30,000 Bahamian men and women migrated temporarily to the United States on short-term contracts to work in the agricultural sector. The programme, known as the British West Indies Labor Program, was created to fill labour shortages caused when Americans left the f...
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University of the Bahamas
2012-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Bahamian Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.sfu.ca/cob/index.php/files/article/view/169 |