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'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling...
Albemarle Parish was formed in 1738 and covered the southern portion of Surry County. It became part of Sussex County when that county was created from Surry County in 1753.
Together with a brief historical account of the Institution, a list of the pupils, donors, subscribers, and specimens of composition by the pupils--and other documents shewing the present state of the Institution.
Together with a brief historical account of the Institution, a list of the pupils, donors, subscribers, and specimens of composition by the pupils--and other documents shewing the present state of the Institution.
John Pownd (Pound) emigrated to America from his native England. His brother, Thomas Pond (Pound), immigrated to New England where he had a large posterity. John settled in Virginia and had a son named John Pound (1663-1717). This John married Elizabeth Joy and they became the parents of four children. Descendants live throughout the United States.
The author tells her life story through journals and real life vignettes written in the first person. She describes her experiences while growing up in a segregated, mid-twentieth century African American community. Nurturing relationships and activities in her working class African American home, learning in segregated African American schools, and strong connections between her home, schools, and other community institutions are described. Family history and customs, community characteristics, and socio-economic and political circumstances and events that affected her early life and her upbringing are described. Included in her story are prominent people, places, events, and circumstances ...
Signature of W.R. Painter in front of book.