Post Emancipation Quotes

“Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“It is unclear which terrified the authorities most: the revolutionary potential of the Marxist 'subversives', based on class, or that of the UNIA, based on race.”
― Mary Chamberlain, Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937–66