... Caribbean has yet produced" (The Pleasures of Exile, 1960), Lamming allied himself, a Negro, with Selvon, an Indian, in emblematic partnership. He contradistinguished them both, as grounded in "the peasant sensibility" from V. S. Naipaul, who "with the diabolical help of Oxford University, has done a thorough job of wiping this out of his guts." Selvon was not himself hostile to Naipaul, who started ... more visibly on the world's stage. As an exile depicting his homeland, Selvon conveys a sense of place, presents people in all their indigenousness, lyricizes the romantic names of rural t...

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... seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as a technical word in trade, law and politics. At the time that future president Thomas Jefferson was born ... , orderly, conscientious so in turn the plantation owners encouraged missionary activities among slaves. Slaves themselves found in Christianity a faith so strong and unrelenting that could give them hope in even a more than oppressive world. While Christianity has sometimes been called...

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