Date (happened)
c. August 1922
(possible)
passage 540034 (lecture nid 1449), 'I was seventeen when I left Barbados, seventeen and a half'
Told / reported
6 May 1969
delivery claim d2 on lecture nid 1449: preserved-revision transcript dateline '5/6/69', agreeing with the independently-merged catalog claim #1067 (also 1969-05-06); the competing catalog #551 claim of 1969-05-07 was already demoted to doubtful as contradicted by six preserved revisions
Neville recalls that he was seventeen -- seventeen and a half, he clarifies -- when he left Barbados for America. He also recalls that as a boy his mother had trained him to kneel and pray every night before bed, a habit he could not bring himself to break for a good while even after he had settled in his new country.