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Show 218 APPENDIX TO NOTl~S. nhlo to do anything towards earning hi.<> Ji,·ing, nnd he only " hnlf 1\ day's work." A magnificent sum truly! Why, "n. peck of co~n a week" would swallow ur one-third of it, nnd the other two-th_trd_s wouhln't clothe a. negro m the mild climate ~f ~hryland and V~rg_tnil~, to sny nothing of nursing a.nc! the Do~t?r ll bt ll: And yet tlus IS by no means an unf:~ir specimen; mdccd, 1t HI considerably tl.bovc the nvcr!lgO price, as Rhown by 'l'ablcs II. and H L . . . "DnDU'Il:LJ). or the poor fa!.·en by lite [Ql()C!t btd~el, tho ~'cra~c cost per week for adults iS scvcnl!J·five cc11lS. ~or clllldrcn, tlm·I!J}u:e u 11ts. 'J'hc chilch-cn in cha.rgo of th? overseers n:c boun;t out bct.~;ccn t he a~cs of ei[Jht nnd twelve year~, tlil they o.ro ~ ~ xtccn )CflfS old. " .Mo~soN. Of the poor l<tken b!flltc lowest -~~tddo> tho ave~at;e eol!t for ndulta has been sixty crnht por wee~. }o~ _cl uhlr_en. tlurly CCIIls p('r week. 'J'he pr:wtiee in reg:tnl to clnltlrcu ts, lo Otmllhcm out O.$ 800J:/:C'/~;;::o~~:·o.re }Jrcpared for the s:cond sentence in the following ex~~~V~:~-:;:-St•niNG•'IEJ.D. Previous to the last six years, the poor were sepamlul into lots,and bid qO' at auction to those ~vh o would. take them for the lowest sum. 1.'/tey wen~ then, lwwcv~r, netther v;ell}etl.110l' tf}Clt clot!tccl, nnd n change wa.s fOund necess:uy tn the manner of d•sposmg of "t~~~~~:s~·tF.J.o, Poor children arc bound out as soon ({S they are copahle of any sen·ice." . . "J:oRDIONT. 'J'hc poOl' of tlns town n.rc put up at auctw1t 00 tho lowest biddet·." APP};NDIX' G. 1. EltANCIP.\TIOX IN THE BRIT!SU 'VEST INDJeS. The fnllowinll' cx~l·ll.Cts n.r<' from a work entitled, "Jamaica in 18?0: or 'l'hc Effecttof Sixteen Years of .F reedom on a Slave Colony. Uy Jdlm Bigelow. Na(l11as inter opes inop.~.-J[oracc. New York ~nd I,ondon: George P. Putnam: 18~ 1. ". l\J r)ligelo_w was, at tlte It me he puhlishcd t his, and, I behove, IS still, R. E ~·~c-Sotlcr, nnd one of the }~ditors of the New York Evening Post; he Will not, therefore, be su~;· pectcd of oxa~ge~a.tinp;. . .- " Before tho s!lqJ had fn.1rly stopped, we were surrom~dcd "1lh boats filled with negroes, some dressed dcccutly, n.nd some mdcccntly, and sol}~~y~oth:~~ulk::r (~~17o)ed oarsmen u nder conuna.nd of Commodore llrooks, h imse lf a Yery IJiack man, with very white linen, wbo~e b_road pennant of red, with a. white ball, swung at the ma.~thcRd, to md1cate that he was senior officer of the p o1:t. * * ~ * He was about two hours in getting us over to Kmgston, a d1stanco of about five mi!CA." ( pp. 8, U.) h · N "My largest trunk, which was hnndled by lhc. con.c man Ill ew York withou t difficulty, engaged the devoted excrtwns of fc:mr negroes., APPENDIX TO NOTES. 249 in the effort to (~raw. it from the boa~, which they ofl'octed by instalments! :dlcr lurnmg 1t ?vc;;·. rt.)1 ~hoy d1d every artwle of luggage, scv~~ ·al tnu~s, and trymg tt ~n vanous ways, n.nd from opposite sidcR, as If to sec 1f they could not 111 some way ••ct tbo advlLnta"'e o' it. They were two hours in tra nsporting our l~gll'flll'C from thg bot~h~ to ou'r l•dging~. not haifa mile dis tant." 'I). uJ 0 " They (the h?tels) a.re all kept nnt served hy colored people. * * * '!'hey han:: no •den of doing anything within any specified period. * * * .I f breakfast was ordered at 8 o'clock, it was sure not to be ready lill 10. If dinner was ordered at 3, we coull'ratulatod ourselves if we got it by 5." (p. 12.) 0 "Hcnts arc exceeding: low, less than half a fi1ir interest on tho cost of the building alone-wltilo the vacant lots cannot be sa.id to ha.vo any market value, there being no sales." (p. 14.) "Though K ingston is the principal port of the I sland, it has but little of tho nir of a. commcrci<Li city. One looks nod listens in vain for the noise of carts and tho bustle of busy men ; no one seems in a hurry .; b~t few arc _do~ng anything, while the masa of the population arc loungmg ;Lhout m !dlen('SS and rags." (p. 15.) u At tho Surry As~Hi\O, thct·c were two col01·ed lawyers and nino colored jm·ors. All tbo ofliocrs of the Court, except the clerk wero colored." ( p. 2.l) ' "Seven-tenths of tho Police force on tho l sbnd, also were colored. Of tho forty-e ight or fifLy membe1·s of tho Lell'islativo Assembly, ten or a tlozen were co~orcd. 'J'hc JHI~Iic printer~, Jordan and Osborn, who we1·o also publ1shcrs of the KmgstQu Journn.l, were colored. Ono or two of th~ ,rcgimcnts,_and n ine-tenths of. the P enitentiary officers, 2vs~)e bf~c~;o !t~v~8~~~~g\~a~>vhc;:t~:~1fc!~~CJ~~~~t~g}~L!~c!~~;a~kr,· ~;~ to bo cn.refully distinguished. " While tho entente cordiale between the whites and the colored pop~latio~ is a.ppnrcntly strengthcniug d~ily, a very different state of feelmg ex1sts between the negroes or AfriCans, anti the browns. Tho latter shun all connection by mn.niagc with the former, nnd can experience no more unpardonable insult, t hn.n to bo c lassified with them lll. any wn.J:· 'l'hcy generally prefer th:lt their daughters s hould live w1th a wh1te person upon :my terms, than to be married to a nC""l'O. }'ew will need to be told that where s uch is tho condition of public sc~1ti~ mont in :L class, tho st:tndard of female virtue amo1w them cannot bo YCI'Y high. It is, perhaps, a trifle higher than a::1ong tho sln.vcs.11 (p. 26.) Jntcnnaniagcs bctwoou tho whites and "browns" arc constantly occurrtng. (\>. 20.) 'l'hc popu n.tion of the I shnd is about 400,000. Of those n.bout 16:?00 ~lrc ~\'hitcs, 68,520, colored, and 203, 128, black, (p. 40.) It IS d1ffi?u lt to. exaggerate! and yet .more difficult to define, tho poverty and mdustrw.. l prostratiOn of Jamaica. 'l'hc natural wcnHh and s pontaneous productiveness of the l slanJ. arc ·so great that no one cnn stnnc, and yet it seems as if the faculty of accumulation were suspcn~cd. All tl~o prodtlcti\'c power of the soil is running to waste; ~2e finest land Ill tho wodtl may bo llad at any price, and |