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Passailaigue, Eleanor.
Subjects
Jamaican Canadians -- Biography.
Women -- Jamaica -- Biography.
Sugar plantations -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Rape victims -- Jamaica -- Biography.
Family histories -- Jamaica.
Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Passailaigue, Eleanor.
Jamaican Canadians -- Biography.
Women -- Jamaica -- Biography.
Sugar plantations -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Rape victims -- Jamaica -- Biography.
Family histories -- Jamaica.
Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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One
foot
in
Jamaica
: a
memoir
/ Eleanor Passailaigue.
by
Passailaigue, Eleanor.
BPS Books, c2014.
Call #:
305.4 P285o
Subjects
Jamaican Canadians -- Biography.
Women --
Jamaica
-- Biography.
Sugar plantations --
Jamaica
-- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Rape victims --
Jamaica
-- Biography.
Family histories --
Jamaica
.
Jamaica
-- Social conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781927483992 (pbk.)
Description:
xi, 179 p., [5] p. of plates : ill. 22 cm.
Contents:
Part
one
: Helen -- Part two: Eva -- Family album -- Part three: Gwen -- Part four: Eleanor.
Summary:
"When Helen, a Jamaican teenager, loses her parents to malaria in 1880, she finds work on a plantation, where she is raped by the owner and gives birth to a daughter. Thus begins the story of four generations of women in
Jamaica
and Boston, including during the Roaring Twenties, with that decade's rise and fall of hemlines and the stock market. The book has four sections, each telling the story of a woman: Helen, Eva, Gwen and Eleanor: Eleanor's great-grandmother and grandmother, her mother and herself. Eleanor Passailaigue was born in
Jamaica
and moved to Toronto, Canada, in 1953. Her early childhood is depicted as part of this book. Donnie Passailaigue, the boy she fell in love with as a teenager, is still at her side. In 1966, Eleanor and Donnie went back to
Jamaica
with their two daughters, returning to Toronto several years later. They currently live in Markham, north of Toronto. This is Eleanor's first book"--Provided by publisher.
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Central Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
305.4 P285o
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