Guyana's Bachelor's Adventure and Paradise Villages

Guyana's Bachelor's Adventure and Paradise Villages: A Mosaic of the History and Culture of a People Liberated takes readers on a fascinating journey into Guyanese village life and culture by way of the Sister Villages, Bachelor's Adventure and Paradise. The Sister Villages are neighboring villages, interwoven and connected in most aspects of their culture and history. Drawing on their oral history, interviews, and archival documents, readers will learn how descendants of enslaved Africans created thriving villages. Through generations, they retained, lost, and (re) built their traditions. The individual stories of over two dozen people, including Uriel Leebert Sancho, Stella Henry, Theophilus Earle, and Charles Glasgow (aka Ball Oil), among others from the villages, trace how the people charted new courses and provided a living legacy of liberation from time past to present. The central themes of Guyana's Bachelor's Adventure and Paradise Villages speak to the strength and resolve of the African Guyanese character. The author has explored her roots and was inspired. It is hoped that readers will have a similar experience.