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Immerse yourself in the vivid world of the Panama Canals construction through the eyes of Harry A. Franck, an American travel writer who spent three months as a census-taker and police officer in the Canal Zone. This captivating series of vignettes offers rich detail and authentic dialect, bringing to life the experiences of those who worked on this monumental project. Please note that some racial terms and attitudes reflected in this work may be considered objectionable today. - Summary by TriciaG

"Panama Canal's Troubled Bet on Its Future" is from the June 22, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Walt Bogdanich, Jacqueline Williams and Ana Graciela Méndez and narrated by Kristi Burns.

In The Silver Women, Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the Panama Canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans.