Banana BottomChatham Bookseller, 1970 - 317 pages Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home village of Banana Bottom seven years later a beautiful, cultured young lady. Despite the evangelical guidance of her foster parents and friendship with a white squire, Bita is increasingly drawn to the vitality of her more natural culture with its festivals, superstitions, revival meetings, and passionate courtships. |
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... Free Churches . In the Free Church there were no rigid sectarian rules . Immersion was practised . But persons from other denominations who ad- hered to sprinkling and who wanted to enter the Free Church were admitted without being ...
... Free Churches . In the Free Church there were no rigid sectarian rules . Immersion was practised . But persons from other denominations who ad- hered to sprinkling and who wanted to enter the Free Church were admitted without being ...
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... Free Church . But the Ark had a successful time drumming up the natives ( it was the only church that used a drum Salvation Army fashion ) and gained many new adherents with the opening up of the American market for the banana and the ...
... Free Church . But the Ark had a successful time drumming up the natives ( it was the only church that used a drum Salvation Army fashion ) and gained many new adherents with the opening up of the American market for the banana and the ...
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... Free Church . But he was welcomed at the Ark . And many of the Free Church folk flocked to the Ark to stamp and shake and shout salvation . But none of them really deserted the Free Church this time . They remained faithful members al ...
... Free Church . But he was welcomed at the Ark . And many of the Free Church folk flocked to the Ark to stamp and shake and shout salvation . But none of them really deserted the Free Church this time . They remained faithful members al ...
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