The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907-1944

by Erna Brodber

One of the most acclaimed novelists in the Caribbean, Erna Brodber tells us in this history about the everyday life of African-Jamaicans born at the turn of the 20th century, the second generation of freemen in Jamaica and the first to be born free. Both eloquent and intimate, the book is based largely upon a series of 90 rare and detailed interviews Brodber conducted with people who lived in Jamaica from around 1900 to the 1970s, and it reveals their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813027594
• ISBN13: 9780813027593
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"