Banana BottomHarper & Brothers, 1933 - 317 pages A Jamaican girl, Bita Plant, who was adopted and sent to be educated in England by white missionary benefactors, returns to her native village of Banana Bottom and finds her black heritage at war with her newly acquired culture. |
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Claude McKay. local agent and purchaser of native produce , chiefly coffee , he used to explore the most inaccessible backwoods to get the beans and bring them donkeyback into Jubilee . The flush season for coffee used to be just around ...
Claude McKay. local agent and purchaser of native produce , chiefly coffee , he used to explore the most inaccessible backwoods to get the beans and bring them donkeyback into Jubilee . The flush season for coffee used to be just around ...
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... coffee pool . A campaign was started exhorting all the peasants to store their produce . All the peasants who could fill an export - price bag of coffee brought it in . Some of the pros- perous peasants turned in as many as ten . That ...
... coffee pool . A campaign was started exhorting all the peasants to store their produce . All the peasants who could fill an export - price bag of coffee brought it in . Some of the pros- perous peasants turned in as many as ten . That ...
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... coffee over , renouncing the Christmas feasting of pig and fowl and wheat bread , and doing with green - boiled bananas and salt herrings . The reverend Angus Craig went among the peasants encouraging them to wait and hope . And his ...
... coffee over , renouncing the Christmas feasting of pig and fowl and wheat bread , and doing with green - boiled bananas and salt herrings . The reverend Angus Craig went among the peasants encouraging them to wait and hope . And his ...
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Angus Craig Anty Nommy asked BA NA Banana Bottom barbecue Belle Black Bita Bita's Busha Glengley Buxton Hall child coffee colony colour coolie Crazy Bow dancing Delgado dray Evan Vaughan father feeling felt flowers Free Church ginger ginger beer Gingertown girl hand Herald Newton Herald Newton Day Hopping Dick Jacob Brown Jamaica Jordan Plant Jubban Jubilee Kojo Jeems lady living Malcolm Craig married Marse Arthur Miss Bita Miss Lambert mission Muggling NAB O T T O M NABOT native Negro never Nommy's Obeah Obeahman Panama Pap Legge peasants person piano play Priscilla Craig Reverend Lambert Rosyanna singing Sister Phibby spirit Squire Gensir supple-jacks sweet Tack Tally talk tea-meeting Teacher Fearon thatch thing thought town tree tree ferns turned veranda village wanted woman women Wumba yams Yoni Yoni's young