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There Will Be Bananas

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The Life in the Banana Plantation

In the banana world, the workers are slaves. It's an era of sanctioned slavery with the support of the United States government. The life in the banana plantation was a little bit like the life in the wild west. There were people from different countries working alongside one another and they tended to divide themselves by ethnicity and race.

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