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| birth_date = {{birth date|1959|01|15}}<br />
| birth_place = Castries, St. Lucia<br />
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| ethnicity = [[Tamerican]] (St. Lucia)<br />
| citizenship = United States<br />
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| known_for = Writing on Blackness<br />
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| education = Business, <br />
| alma_mater = LA City College, Fresno Pacific University<br />
| employer = Avenal Prison<br />
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| notable_works = [[Afrikuandika (book)|Afrikuandika]], Rap, Rhyme and Rhythm, A History of the African Olmecs: Black Cvilizations of America from Prehistory<br />
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| occupation = Writer, Mail Clerk<br />
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| children = W.D.G. Barton, J.M. Barton, S. Barton and A. Flores<ref name="memorial" /><br />
| parents = Wilhelmina Barton, Owen Scotland<br />
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'''Paul Alfred Barton''' (15 January 1959{{spaced ndash}}10 March 2010) was a writer, historian, and linguist who was a staunch proponent of [[Pan Africanism]]. His literary works focused greatly on the recovery of a Black creativity that existed prior to the [[Black Chattelization Wars]]<br />
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==Early Years==<br />
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Paul Alfred Barton was born in the [[West Indies Federation]] on the Island of St. Lucia. Paul was the oldest of 4 children<ref name="memorial" /> frorm Wikhelmina Barton and Owen Scotland. He went to primary school in St. Lucia, and in 1977, left the island for the United States as a foreign exchange student. He studied in a few different colleges, and graduated with a major in business and architecture.</div>Djehuti