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Born in Montpelier in the parish of Hanover, Jamaica, during the 1920s, Roland 'Ron' Riggan married Lize Patterson and started a family. He joined the exodus of young men going to Britain from the island during the 1950s and drifted into boozing and women. When he fathered a child with an English woman Lize decided that their life would not be thrown away so easily. She raised the passage for their oldest child, Bibs, to travel to Britain in t...

Life as a RigganA Journey From Enslavement to Freedom by a Jamaican Family By R. George Riggon In 1807 the British Parliament bowed to pressure to place a legal ban on the trade in young able bodied African men and women. It then took a further 27 years before all slaves were set free in 1834. Many generations perished under the absolutebrutality of the slave system, but many were strong enough to survive andsecure freedom. This book tells the...