Date (happened)
  • c. 1922
    "When I was a boy … at the age of 17", told in Your Maker (nid 1413)
  • between 19 February 1922 and 18 February 1923 (probable)
    passage 539421 (lecture nid 1413), 'at the age of 17 my parents put me on a boat to America', combined with the corpus's certain birth date, hist_event 950 (1905-02-19)
Told / reported
7 January 1969
Your Maker (nid 1413), telling 1413-1, told 1969-01-07
Persons
As an unschooled boy in Barbados he dreamed of America; at seventeen his parents put him on a boat with $600, expecting him to return when the money ran out, but he stayed.