Barbarous Mexico

"I found Mexico to be a land where the people are poor because they have no rights, where peonage is the rule for the great mass, and where actual chattel slavery obtains for hundreds of thousands." ― John Kenneth Turner, Barbarous Mexico In Barbarous Mexico (1911), John Kenneth Turner describes the corruption and brutal labor system he observed during three years of involvement in a revolutionary movement which led to the overthrow of Mexico's ruler Porfirio Diaz in 1910. The book is organized around three themes: the slave life of the plantations, the elitism of the Diaz government, and the role of foreign governments in supporting the oppression of the Mexican people.

Author: John Kenneth Turner
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 03/24/1905
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9781646798407

About the Author
Turner, John Kenneth: - JOHN KENNETH TURNER (1879-1948) was an American journalist, author, and socialist muckraker who, at the time of the Mexican Revolution, was working as a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald. To expose the oppression of Mexican peasants Turner went undercover and became a gun runner for the Mexican rebels.