... 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 ... connection in Selvon's fiction in The Lonely Londoners publicized his country and placed Caribbean literature more visibly on the world's stage. As an exile depicting his homeland, Selvon...

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... approximately the same status as white indentured servants. Such reasoning failed to notice that Englishmen, in the early 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 ... moved to the Old Southwest which was definitely no secret to the public. The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in moral values and sensibility. Fo...

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