Eliseo Medina on Typhoid Epidemic & Slavery in Florida
Channel: Tom & Ethel Bradley Center CSUN
Date: 2023-10-28

Under the headline "Slavery Ain't Dead," an April 6, 1973 story in the farmworker newspaper "El Malcriado" reported from Homestead, Florida: "With the state still feeling the effects of the typhoid epidemic that hit farm workers here recently, another farm labor scandal has hit Dade County—this time the virtual slavery of farm workers by 'crew leaders,' the Florida counterpart to the California labor contractor." Eliseo Medina recounts these events in this clip of the oral history conducted by Kent Kirkton and José Luis Benavides. The oral history was taped by Xina Muñoz-Choto. Thumbnail image by Sonia Gurrola. This video segment was edited by Brandon Lien.

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