Where The Twain Meet

ip. In Jamaica, she found no people living in barbaric splendour, no stores of gold and silver and precious stones, only a lovely land, fruitful

her, it was only I think because she could not take Cuba and Hispaniola. The Spaniards fought for every inch of the island before

to fill his tables for the feast, Government sought in the highways and byways for a population, and they imported white bondsmen and women, virtually a slave population, the first shadow that was to impede the progr

hite bondsmen, they sought a subst

hardships. Jamaica was no exception to the almost universal rule. Most men went there to make their fortunes, with every intention of returning to spend them. Only Hans Sloane, a wise and far-seeing man, saw the glory of the land, and left behind him a record of its wealth and its beauty and fertility. Lady Nu

they fell into the hands of the slavers till they stood in the slave markets at Kingston or Montego Bay, told calmly, told coldly, told simply as facts by men who saw only the difficulties of the trade, and of dealing with

nts, working to provide funds to be spent in the old country,

eir temporary companions, so now they took the black while they were young and comely. At first it

h members, even though they are slaves, and we remember how short a while before they started here as naked savages. Two generations were worlds apa

re still difficulties, difficulties born of ignorance, of poverty, but so there are in the upward march of every people under the sun. Sometimes they make gr

slowly awakening to the value of the tropical possessions that are within the borders, and this fruitful island of wood and mountain and w