{"value"=>"<p>This scrapbook is about Barbados between 1922 and 1939 and contains ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes a selection of poems entitled \"Overheard\" by Edward A. Cordle, which was originally published in the <span class=\"title\">Weekly Reader</span> newspaper, based in Bridgetown, Barbados. The pieces are written in Bajan dialect and styled as a conversation. Additional topics include colonialism, discrimination, government, labor, slavery, sugar, the sinking of the SS Vestris, and the economic riots of 1937.</p>"}