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Panama Canal construction in 1913 showing workers drilling holes for dynamite in bedrock, as they cut through the mountains of the Isthmus. Steam shovels in the background move the rubble to railroad cars.

The Panama Canal’s forgotten casualties

By IBW21Editors' Choice

A Vast Project Built from the Sweat and Blood of Black Labor from the Caribbean By Caroline Lieffers — It was the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen….

April 23, 2018

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The Panama Canal’s forgotten casualties

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