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 | | The novel _Beka Lamb_ (1982) by the Belizean author Zee Edgell tells us that members of the fl creole community "seldom married among the Caribs, although these two groups shared, in varying degrees, a common African ancestry" (31-32). |
| | Edgell's attribution of a "common African ancestry" to Carib and creole alike may seem surprising, but the narrator later explains that those called "Caribs" by the Belizeans are in fact the descendants of escaped African slaves who arrived in St. Vincent. |
| | Contradicting Rhys' assumptions concerning the Caribs' refusal of miscegenation, Edgell's fls in St. Vincent "mingled with the %Caribans%, originally from South America, adopting much of their language and some of their ways, but keeping many of their African traditions" (68, my emphasis). |
| jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.591/matibag.591 (6669 words) |
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