Editing History of Jamaica (section)

====Bananas====

{{Main|History of modern banana plantations in the Americas}}

[[File:Port Maria Harbor 20231007 123647.jpg|thumb|left|Port Maria Harbor, St Mary Parish]]The earliest modern plantations originated in Jamaica and the related [[Western Caribbean Zone]], including most of [[Central America]]. It involved the combination of modern transportation networks of steamships and railroads with the development of refrigeration that allowed more time between harvesting and ripening. North American shippers like [[Lorenzo Dow Baker]] and [[Andrew Preston (businessman)|Andrew Preston]], the founders of the [[Boston Fruit Company]] started this process in the 1870s, but railroad builders like [[Minor C. Keith]] also participated, eventually culminating in the multi-national giant corporations like today's [[Chiquita Brands International]] and [[Dole Food Company|Dole]]. These companies were [[monopoly|monopolistic]], [[vertically integrated]] (meaning they controlled growing, processing, shipping and marketing) and usually used political manipulation to build [[enclave economy|enclave economies]] (economies that were internally self-sufficient, virtually tax exempt, and export-oriented that contribute very little to the host economy). [[Alfred Constantine Goffe]] was a Jamaican Businessman whose St. Mary Banana co-op was the first in Jamaica, opposed the larger export companies and by 1909 had the largest Jamaican owned Banana export company.<ref name="LMH">{{cite web |title=When Banana was King  |url=https://www.lmhpublishing.com/non-fiction/when-banana-was-king-paperback |website=www.lmhpublishing.com |publisher=LMH Publishers Limited |accessdate=18 November 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The resurgence of the Baltimore docks and newer, faster boats,  refrigeration on board steamships and rail-cars enabled bananas to travel further to meet the demand for the yellow fruit, for which the firm of [[Alfred Constantine Goffe|Lanasa and Goffe]] excelled .