Tina Faulk
There are very few ‘happy ending’ stories in the cruel history of slavery. This may just be one of them.
In Ceylon – now Sri Lanka- in the Fifties, as my family prepared to relocate to Australia, rice was still ferried to the capital Colombo by river boats, wide, flat-bottomed barges with coconut thatch roofs, known locally as ‘padda boats’.
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