A. R. F. Webber

Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1 January 1880 – 29 June 1932) was a Caribbean author from Trinidad and Tobago. He was author of Those That Be in Bondage: A Tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters (1917), a novel described as "a strange mixture of romantic sentimentality and protest against the treatment of East Indian indentured labourers on Guyanese plantations",[1] and Centenary History and Handbook of British Guiana (1931).

Further reading

References
  1. Anthony Boxhill, "The Beginnings to 1929", in Bruce King (ed.), West Indian Literature, Macmillan, 1979, p. 42.
  2. "A critical biography of a major intellectual who struggled for justice against colonialism", University Press of Mississippi.

Dolores T. Macfarlane (1993), Kith and Kin: Of three Tobago families, [Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines]: D.T. Macfarlane, OL 582949M


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