TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brailsford,David
AU  - Stilgoe,John
TI  - Confessions of Anansi
SN  - 9768184515
AV  - GR121.J2 B725 2003
U1  - 819.827221 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Kingston, Jamaica
PB  - LMH Pub.
KW  - Anansi (Legendary character)
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Tales
KW  - Legends
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - History
KW  - Tall tales
N1  - "Born in Nottingham, England ... David Brailsford qualified as a Psychiatric Nurse ... He developed a staff in-house Training Department and worked with clients as a Registered Dramatherapist. Now retired, he spends much of his time writing tales about Jamaican history, folklore and fantasy. His first book was a collection of ghost stories, entitled Jamaican Duppy Stories. He lives with his Jamaican born wife, Leonie in Nottingham England; 010 to adult
N2  - An illustrated collection of Anansi stories "intended ... for all ages, being as it is a micro history of the legendary heroes of the Jamaican nation and a cry for the freedom of its people."; An original concept [in which] the author does not relate the usual Anansi stories ... but entwines them with the lives of the Ashanti Africans from the slave trade to plantation life in Jamaica. You see Anansi from the interior to the coast of Africa with the captured Africans. You experience his horror of the Middle Passage, the auction block and plantation life and its many intrigues ..."; Illustrations of Nanny of the Maroons [p.45]; Sam Sharpe [p.51]; Paul Bogle[p.59];George William Gordon [p.67];Marcus Garvey [p.69]; Alexander Bustamante [p.81]; Norman Manley [p.88]
UR  - http://wwwlmhpublishingjamaica.com
UR  - mailto:lmhbookpublishing@cwjamaica.com
UR  - http://www.johnstilgoe.co.uk/Duppies.htm
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