Mind the onion seed : Black "roots" Bermuda : presented during Bermuda's First Heritage Week, May, 1979 / Nellie Eileen Musson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musson, Nellie Eileen, 1926-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Bermuda Islands--History.

Black people.

Women, Black--Bermuda Islands.

Women, Black.

History.

Bermuda Islands--History.

Bermuda Islands.

Musson, Nellie Eileen, 1926- (autograph) (Banks Collection copy).

Local Subjects:

Musson, Nellie Eileen, 1926- (autograph) (Banks Collection copy).

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 329 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, Bermuda : Musson's, 1979.

Contents:

An overview of chapters

The Root and the Offspring

"Mind the Onion Seed"

Ancestral Matriarchs

Black Religion-Pre-Emancipation Times

Emancipation

Black Women in the Arts-Pre-1900

Nineteenth Century Newspaper Women

Bermuda's Black Centenarians

Women in the Lodges and Friendly Societies

Bermuda's Black Nurses

These Women Gave All

Women Garveyites and the U.N.I.A.

Bermuda's Black Rennaissance

Women as Trail Blazers

Some Other Women Leaders

Linkage and Lineage

Black Women in Education

Women's Recreation and Sports

The Black Women's Social Institutions

Some Twentieth Century Artists

Epilogue.

Notes:

Erratum stating "Owing to certain printing errors, an erratum is being prepared which will be available to you on request. The Publishers" tipped in.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "Nov. 8, 1979. Dear Joanna, I have had the beautiful privilege of meeting students like yourself here at Howard. I hope that you will be inspired to search out your heritage as you read my book. Nellie E. Musson."

Other Format:

Online version: Musson, Nellie Eileen, 1926- Mind the onion seed.

OCLC:

5676239