People were afraid of 'duppy' and obeah, not gunmen
Oni Agatha Peart Ellis, who will mark her 100th birthday this Saturday, has very vivid memories of the fear that many people had in her early years growing up in Jamaica. But that fear, she said, was rooted in belief in ghosts, rather than apprehension about crime.
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