The literate few: An historical sketch of the slavery origins of black elites in the English West Indies
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Jan. 1984
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In the absence of any significant body of work on the subject of literacy in West Indian slave societies, the intention of this sketch is to raise the issues that would be involved in such a field of research. It employs a traditional concept of literacy, which simply refers to the individual's ability to read and write