147:, Trinidad and Tobago, like several generations of his family, growing up on a sugar estate on which ancestors of his had worked. His parents were Lionel R. and Carmen Rose Cudjoe; his great-grandfather, Jonathon Cudjoe, was born in Tacarigua in 1833, the last year of formal slavery, and his great-grandmother, Amelia, was born in the same village in 1837.
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as a "beautifully written and meticulously researched account of
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Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation
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Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference
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Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence
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Preserving the Tacarigua Savannah: Respecting Our Heritage
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The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
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