Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba
Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration from Barbados
- 2016 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, History (Adult Nonfiction)
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 fuelled 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.
