African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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183 p, "Prose fiction, mainly novels, written by people who were born or who grew up in the West Indies. The literary works to be approached usually have a West Indian setting. The books have all been written in the twentieth century." (Publisher)
"The story of Peter Von Scholten, Governor of the Danish West Indies who freed the slaves ca. 1848, and Anna Heegaard; also, daughter of the Dane Jacob Heegaard, is legend in the folklore and written history of the Danish West Indies. Some Danish historians have called the Von Scholten-Heegaard twenty-five year relationship the greatest love story of the Danish West Indies." (Louise Daniel Hutchinson, Ancestry.com message board,
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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140 p, Includes Anne Dimock's "Capoeira Angola"; Bernice Reagon's "Interview with Freddy Massey, Director of the Guybau Invaders, Champion Steelband of Guyana"; and Leonard Goines' "Black music of Latin America and the Caribbean";
