Labor Rebellion

The Sisters' orphanage included a farm to make it self-sustaining. During this period the sugar crop was replaced by bananas as the main crop.  The Jamaican economy was agrarian and Jamaicans worked on banana plantations in Central America and Cuba, and in the construction of the Panama Canal.  The work was hard and though they were free the laborers were not much better off than they were under slavery.  In 1938 as result of the hardships of the depression there was a labor rebellion . Unemployment soared in the late 1930’s.