Today the Department of Culture continues to present a profile on Mr Edgar Challenger.
While Mr Edgar Challenger continued his studies at City college, New York, he continued to romance his black queen. His mother did not, of course, know of his interest in Rubina Ginyard of South Carolina, the granddaughter of a slave. She was expecting that he would return to St. Kitts to marry one of the beautiful fair-complexioned daughters of Mr Burchell Marshall, who liked Edgar and has some kind of business arrangement with his family. But Edgar was in no mood to respect his mother's wishes concerning his choice of a bride. Furthermore, the romance of his discovery of Africa was easily translated into an enchantment by the lovely Rubina, an authentic daughter of Africa.
Edgar Challenger went to Saskatchewan to work on a wheat farm and returned to New York to claim his bride whom be brought to St. Kitts in 1933. The Edgar Challenger of 1033, who returned to St. Kitts with his black wife, was in many respects a different person from the younger aristocrat surviving on his inheritance. He still survived on what was left of the family legacy, but he was a new man.
He was chastened by what he perceived to be his eldest brother's avarice and the impact which the declining Challenger fortune had on the mental health of Cecil, another brother who had been to Canada to study dentistry but lacked the funding necessary to establish a practice.
And when the other brothers decided to sell the Church Street building in which he ran the store, he shrugged his shoulders and adopted an unmaterialistic posture.
Edgar was also wounded by his mother's attitude to his wife Rubina, Louisa Challenger, who had lived all her life regarding herself as more white than black and who tried to inculcate in her six boys the need to 'whiten up' could find no way to co-exist with a black daughterin-law. With the backing of her other sons, she refused to let Edgar live with her in the big upstairs house on Church Street and relegated him, with his wife and young son, to the other family house on Central Street. It was in this setting, where he divided his time between placating his wife over the undeserved ostracism from her new family, and managing a declining business at "International House," that Edgar Challenger met Thomas Manchester. "A so ee go." | 
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