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Show 156. JAMAICA. The labor account for the first year of freedom, deducting rents, was only about £220, leav~ng a balance in favor of freedom, of £400. More nnprovement had been made on the property, than for many years past, with a prospect of an increasing l)xtent of cultivation. On a second property, the slave and appren· ticeship expenses averaged £2,400; the labor account, for the first year of freedom, was less than £850. On a third estate, the year's expense, under slavery, was £1,480; under apprenticeship, £1,050; under freedom £637. On a fourth, the reduction is from £1,100 to £770. Allowing a little time for the calming of apprehen-sions, and the development of truth, such results must infallibly find their way into the value of landed property. That they have already done so, in Jamaica, to a considerable extent, is undeniable. A person in the parish of Manchester, who never held slaves, availing himself of the general alarm, bought a property, at the date of full freedom, for £1,000 currency. The free laborers work the better for him, because he never was a slave-holder. He cleared the whole purchase money, besides his expenses, the first year. He would, of course, make a miserable bargain, were he now to sell the property for five times the amount, i.e. for £5,000. There can be no better testimony in Jamaica, on this subject, than that of A. B. He assured me that landed property in that island now, without the slaves, is worth its full former value, including the slaves, during the times of depression, which preceded the JAMAICA . 157 a.c t of edm a. ncip. ation. It has found 1.t b 1 s ottom, has TISen, an IS stl l gradually rising. "I b r . . , e HWe m my con. sctenc. e, says Dr. Stewart' "that property m· J a-matca,. w1thout the slaves ' is 'a s v'a ltta' b! e as I· t cw rmerly was .W ith them. . I believe its value •.v ou ld be d ou bl ed, by smcerely turnmg away from '' Ll! reit' cs o f s l avery to the honest free working of a free system." ' Third month (March) 21st · After a com fio rtab l e meal, called the "second breakfas't , we parte d fir om our intelligent friends at -- Penn and . .1 d • ' < agmn assa1 e the rough, htlly, road.s . At one spot' we , vere o blr' ge d to use all our force m pushing our carriages up a hill as st.e ep as the roof of a house '· but the c ons t ant suc-cesst~ n of fine scenes repaid all our toil. In the e;enmg we reached the neat little village of Mande; ll!e, the capital of the parish of Manchester, which IS at the height of 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. There, in the midst of green woods and pasture we found an inn, which, for comfortable fare and a;~ c~mmodation, would do credit to England or America, and were glad to take up our abode in it ~ th following day-the first of the week · D ur.m ogr t hee course of our excursion, we had received help a d . ~ . fi n mor~ atwn rom the Baptists, the Methodists, the Mo-ravtans, and the ministers and members of the Church of England · At M an d evt' II e, we found ourselves among the Independents or Congregationalists. An excellent m'I SS· tonary station has been formed there ufnfi der. the Lond on M1' ss·w nary Society, a large chapel ' [e. ecttve. school, &c. In this chapel we held our pub~ 1c meetmgs fo r wors h t· p, mornm. g and evening. Great |