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The Fields They Couldn't Leave: Seabrook Farms and the Story America Tried to Forget

The Fields They Couldn't Leave: Seabrook Farms and the Story America Tried to Forget


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The Fields They Couldn't Leave Seabrook Farms and the Story America Tried to Forget They came in search of safety but found themselves bound to fields they couldn't walk away from. In the shadow of World War II, as Japanese Americans were ripped from their homes and thrown into camps, an offer came from a farm in New Jersey. It wasn't freedom. But it wasn't behind barbed wire either. Thousands said yes. They arrived at Seabrook Farms, hoping for dignity. What they found was something else entirely. Company housing. Racial segregation. Twelve-hour shifts. Wages that barely fed a family. Their lives were monitored. Their voices muted. Their work was frozen, packaged, and sold across the nation but their stories were buried. And they weren't alone. Black migrants from the Jim Crow South. Caribbean guestworkers with no way out. Estonian refugees fleeing Soviet terror. German POWs. Japanese Peruvians stripped of their citizenship and dumped in America. They all ended up in the same place under the rule of a man hailed as "The Henry Ford of Agriculture." This isn't the story of a farm. It's the story of a hidden empire, built on innovation, exploitation, and silence. For decades, Seabrook Farms fed the country and fueled a fantasy of American progress. But what it demanded in return and who it used to build it was carefully left out of history books. Until now. The Fields They Couldn't Leave uncovers the buried truth of America's largest frozen food empire. Through firsthand accounts, declassified documents, and cultural artifacts, it reconstructs the lives of those trapped between labor, loyalty, and survival. What does it mean to be "free" in a place you can't leave? What happens when your country forgets you on purpose? It's time to remember what really happened in the fields. Buy the book now and discover the story America tried to forget but the people who lived it never could.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798289638700
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Seabrook Farms and the Story America Tried to Forget
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8289638701
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 168 gr


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