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Title: Rail: African & African American Labor and the Ties That Bind in the Atlantic World

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: As was intended, the construction of railways transformed the landscape and societies of the Atlantic World. Great fortunes and forces emerged in the directions of the tracks, sufficient to create structures of economy and organize communities in ways that persisted long after a railway’s use had diminished. In this dissertation, the author argues that the connections and reorganization effected by railway construction created new economic paths in the American South, Panama, and Gold Coast West Africa; the transformations were marked by struggles for power along racial lines, enslavement and coercion in labor, and the interchange between communities and their existing markets and a largely foreign, imperial order. Using sources from African Americans, Afro-Caribbean, and West Africans who comprised the bulk of the labor, as well as the communities where the railways were constructed, the author combines these with . . .

Url: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1427

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Authors: Wendorf, Benjamin

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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