Recording, oral
OP37 - West Indian Lawyer in the Gold Coast: George James
Fecha
2010-06-104/19/1992
Autor
Appiah, Estelle
Rouse-Jones, Margaret
Institución
Resumen
George James Christian was a Dominican lawyer who migrated to the Gold Coast via London in the early twentieth century. He is representative of a group of West Indians who made the return to the motherland in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. He had a successful legal practice in the Gold Coast and was a member of the Legislative Council from 1930 until his death in 1940. The persons interviewed are Ghanaians, all of whom were either relatives or friends of Christian. Their names are given with the tapes.