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My family home is built on the former estate of Minor Cooper Keith, a founder and former VP of United Fruit, who did many similar horrible things to people in C
by buildsjets 2y ago
My family home is built on the former estate of Minor Cooper Keith, a founder and former VP of United Fruit, who did many similar horrible things to people in Central and South America. I learned this while researching the name of the waterway behind our house, called "Keith Canal". You can see the history of the development in historic maps from 1829 thru 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Cooper_Keith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Cooper_Keith
https://westisliphistoricalsociety.org/index.php/archives/map-collection https://westisliphistoricalsociety.org/index.php/archives/ma...
- mistrial9 2y agonone of that Wikipedia article reflect the comments here.. maybe take a minute to organize some references and edit? a new section on "controversy" might fit
- buildsjets 2y agoEditing Wikipedia is way too much of a pain in the butt. What will and will not they accept as a primary source? What if even the United Fruit Company website provides a citation that 4000 enslaved people died under his supervision at the age of 23 while overseeing construction of just 25 miles of his railroad? It would probably just get deleted. (That's a death every 33 feet of construction, for 25 miles...) https://www.unitedfruitcompany.com/biographies/the-seldom-recorded-life-of-minor-cooper-keith https://www.unitedfruitcompany.com/biographies/the-seldom-re...
- lazide 2y ago[flagged]
- selimthegrim 2y agoI will see that and raise you the president’s house at Tulane University