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In the first half of the twentieth century, a small corner of southern New Jersey became the first and probably the only rural global village of its kind and size in America. Here in a township that did not appear on most state maps, thousands of men, women and children from more than 20 countries and speaking as many languages, most of them uprooted and displaced by war or poverty, came to work at what Life magazine called in 1955, the biggest vegetable factory in the world . That factory was Seabrook farms, which pioneered frozen vegetables for Clarence Birdseye and became the prime provider for America's fighting men in both World Wars and the free world's population as well. This book looks at the people who worked and lived together harmoniously when multiculturalism was not even a word: Japanese American families who had been sent off to internment camps by their own government, Europeans who came from displaced persons camps, out of work mountain people, dark-skinned men from the West Indies with British accents and preferred cricket to baseball and so many others. This extraordinary population formed the base of a very remarkable food processing operation. The book also looks at C F Seabrook, engineer, farmer, astute business and visionary. Was he a humanitarian or shrewd businessman?

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