These are questions that have come to fascinate me, because they reveal what amounts to a lost history for many of us.
She worried that she might be forced into the humiliation of asking someone, a neighbour perhaps, for a loan.
And they had no curiosity about it beyond asking why black people were in this country.
We assume that Emily Pender and Theresa L Pender were among four dwellers or residents at this place.
In the Caribbean, slaves far outnumbered the white owners, and that mix of isolation, fear and dependency produced very different societies from those of the American South.
With some hesitation I crossed the floor.
It was an amazing experience.
I met my aunt and cousins and saw where my mum grew up.