Progressive Barbadian-British poet Peter Blackman’s book published at last

Reblogged from Dear Kitty.  Some blog

Peter Blackman meets Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Dubois at the 1949 World Peace Conference in Paris

Born in 1909, Peter Blackman was the son of a quasi-illiterate stonemason and a laundress in St John’s parish, Barbados – one of the poorest parts of the island.

He was given a scholarship to an exclusive colonial school by an Anglican church eagerly seeking “native” recruits to the priesthood.

Despatched to Durham University, he became a priest in 1933 and was sent to Gambia as a missionary. There he very soon discovered that black priests like himself were on a lower stipend than their white colleagues.

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