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Long Night's Journey
Wakefield, Dan | December 7, 1957 issue

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Ricardo Sanchez, a Puerto Rican migrant, came from where the sugar cane is higher than a man to the plaza in old San Juan where the buses marked "Aeropuerto" stop. He came with his wife and two daughters and three suitcases and a paper bag and the promise from a brother in Harlem, New York City, that there was work to be found in "fabrica." The work in the sugar cane was over for the season, and Ricardo had found nothing else. The government was prepared to pay him $7 every two weeks for thirteen weeks before the season began again, and, then with the season he would get $3.60 a day for eight hours in the sun. He had done it before, as his fathers had done it, but this time he told himself he wanted something more.

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EMIGRATION & immigration; SANCHEZ, Ricardo; IMMIGRANTS; SUGARCANE industry; HARLEM (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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