Darcus Howe: a Political Biography
Bunce, Robin, and Paul Field. "Son of a Preacher Man." Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 11–26. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 3 Oct. 2021. <http:// dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472544407.ch-001>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 3 October 2021, 02:52 UTC. Copyright © Robin Bunce and Paul Field 2014. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 1 Son of a Preacher Man We know nothing, nothing at all, of the results of what we do to children. My father had given me a bat and ball, I had learnt to play and at eighteen was a good cricketer. What a fi ction! In reality my life up to ten had laid the powder for a war that lasted without respite for eight years, and intermittently for some time aft erwards – a war between English Puritanism, English literature and cricket, and the realism of West Indian life. On one side was my father, my mother (no mean pair), my two aunts and my grandmother, my uncle and his wife, all the family friends (which included a number of headmasters from all over the island), some eight or nine Englishmen who taught at the Queen ’ s Royal College, all graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, the Director of Educa- tion and the Board of Education, which directed the educational system of the whole island. On the other side was me, just ten years old when it began.
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