This book examines the socials and economic forces that have shaped and constrained the development of education in the British Leeward Islands following emancipation. It offers a critique on British colonial education and highlights several noteworthy achievements despite financial and ideological problems. The dialectical nature of education in helping to shape as well as being shaped by the culture becomes evident.

Born and raised in Long Ground Village 'behind God back', Howard Fergus rose to prominent positions in academia and the public service in Montserrat and the Caribbean. This book is a sequel to his popular Road from Long Ground: My Personal Path which treated with the early and middle years of his life and the forces and persons that informed those years. The present volume deals with the declining, but by no means lazy years since the road "winds uphill all the way." It also describes the new Long Ground and some of its cavalcade of achievers in the modern era. The thought is that Long Ground...