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'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, Guardian A powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the Caribbean The daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a Black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams' childhood world was one of mixed messages, dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was always to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all'. Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery,...
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A detailed account of the life and work of a pioneer among women's education and the founder of the Troy Female Seminary.
Excerpt from Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn: With a Portrait Amongst others with whom at and after this date she formed close and lasting friendships destined to colour her whole remaining life, may be mentioned Mr. Carlyle, Baron Bunsen, M. Rio, and the Rev. Mr. Maurice. To these, much of the keen enjoyment that she derived from unreserved interchange of thought was due. With Mr. Maurice above all, for whom her regard amounted to veneration, the most intimate friendship subsisted from the year 1849 to the very week of her own death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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