Haitian and Mexican Farmworkers in Immokalee: A Story of Black History and Labor Solidarity

Haitian and Mexican Farmworkers in Immokalee: A Story of Black History and Labor Solidarity

Farmworker cutting cane in 1980s in Immokalee, Florida. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Devin B. Martinez / Peoples Dispatch The struggles of farmworkers in the US have long been shaped by race, migration, and exploitation. Black farmworkers–especially Haitian migrants—are often overlooked in this fight, despite the crucial role they played and continue to play in transforming US agriculture. From slavery to sharecropping to the brutal conditions of…