Date (happened)
1922
"when I was seventeen … that’s forty-odd years ago…the year was 1922", told in Maker Maker Things (nid 1845)
Told / reported
7 February 1969
Maker Maker Things (nid 1845), telling 1845-1, told 1969-02-07
Persons
As a boy in Barbados he dreamed only of America, and at seventeen his parents put him on a boat with $600 expecting him to spend it and come home; he went in 1922 and never returned to live there.