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Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university, he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with the need to give up her mixed-race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril’s keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward’s story. As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward’s itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada’s Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world.
This book is a compilation of all known burials in 44 cemeteries in Swift Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina. Each entry includes tombstone information from surveys conducted 2005-06, including name, birth and death dates. Additional research has been done including spouse(s), parents, marriage dates and data gleaned from census. The book includes comprehensive surname index...--Summary from publisher website: LuLu.com.