Neville's family rises from poverty to financial power in Barbados

Neville describes the extreme poverty and lack of education of his boyhood, and how his father and then his brother Victor found the Principle and used it to make the family the biggest financial power in Barbados, holding to the vision even through riots, burnings and cane-burning on the island.
Date (happened)
between 1915 and 1925
unresolved
  1. between 1915 and 1925 stated · probable · preferred
    Source If You Can Really Believe ¶8"in my formative years", told in If You Can Really Believe (nid 1512)
Place
Told / reported
  1. 15 June 1970 stated
    Source If You Can Really BelieveIf You Can Really Believe (nid 1512), telling 1512-0, told 1970-06-15
Sources

Source

  • If You Can Really Believe ¶8 (I have all the evidence in the world, because no one in this audience tonight has gone through greater poverty than the speaker. No one started behind the 8-ball more than I did. No one had, I would say, less education in my formative years – no social b…)