Migration Scene
When World War I started in Europe in 1914 the price of food in the southern United States and Caribbean increased and a business depression occurred that lasted until the summer of 1915. In addition, agricultural dislocation in the South and Caribbean led to low demand for agricultural workers. There was also a demand for labor with higher wages offered in the U. S. North and Midwest, South America, and Mesoamerica (including Central America and Mexico). In U. S. south regions and the Caribbean racist public officials shamefully mistreated blacks too. By 1917, thousands of southerners and people from the Caribbean migrated to the U. S. North and Midwest, the Panama Canal Zone, sugar, banana, mahogany, and cacao plantations in Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Central America, and oil fields in Venezuela and Mexico. Many migrants traveled by rail and steamboat as employers desperate for laborers provided free passage. Blacks accustomed to confronting racist policies while traveling acquired the habit of packing food for travel on trains and steamboats in empty shoe boxes stuffed with cold sandwiches, fried chicken, slices of buttered bread, hard-boiled eggs, a little paper of salt and pepper, fruit, and a slice of cake. Here are two red velvet cake recipes one traditional and the other vegan.
Red velvet cake recipe with great photos: http://pinchmysalt.com/2008/11/10/red-velvet-cake-recipe/
Vegan red velvet cake recipe: http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/recipes/vegan-red-velvet-cake-with-buttercream-frosting
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