Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-31
prom the New York Tribune.
EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA.
IT'S PRACTICAL RESULTS.

r... IT'S PRACTICAL RESULTS.
SIR In The spring Of this year | passed some
weeks IN Jamaica, West ladies, and have thought
ahat some account of the present condition of that
beautiful island may bc acceptable to the readers
pt your paper.
On landing at Kingston, the principal seaport
OF tho island. | mast confess that | was IN 're
than halls inclined to believe the stories industri.
uusly circulated through this country, that the
emanUipated slave is more idle and vicious tnah
oil other of Gods intelligent creatures But
when | found, a. | rode on horseback through the
valleys and over the mountains, an industrious.
sober people, [ concluded (whlt ON inquiry i
found to be the truth hat the vagabonds OF the
whole island had moved to the sea shore, TO pick
up a precarious. idle livelihood, by carrying bag
gage, selling fruit, begging, DC.
Ia conversing with planters, | learned that la
borers can be easily obtained for n fair cOmpen-
satinn and kind treatment but it is II fact that
the emnncipated much prefer to work on their
own few acres of land. Wherever | went | found
happy; contentcd men and women, cultivating
kuga rrcane and numerous vegetables and fruits on
their own account. | went into their clean, neat
and well furnished cottages, which would compare
well Il viii! not say with Irish novels, both in
ireland and ia :his country-but with the houses
of tho native pioneers Of our own country. l
found in them not only crockery, and glassware,
and mahogany furniture, but shelves OF useful
books. | saw AT leans of unmixed blood, grind,
ing their own sugar-caue in their own mills and
making their own sugar
| attended a large meeting of black and colored
men, who had met to decide whether they would
invite n schoohmaster to settle among them. The
speakers. with one exception, were negroes and
colored people. Much true natural elcquence was
DISPLAYED. The opposition was feeble. Only
one man doubted the expediency OF taking the
children from the work fields, where they were a
great help to their parents, and sending them t
school.
- ii uNT, 1ttIo 1narninr enabled
mo to see that a note, given to me in raymen'
for a horse | had sold; was not written according
to contract"
Another said awe are willing to pay a good
price for a fine horse, and we should be willing tC
pay for a good teacher for our children"
Another said II should have been wrongeC
out of forty pounds of coffee; when | went tt
Kingston TO sell il, the other day, II l ha0 no
known how TO cipher"
Another remarked "Those who have learning
md can read will be more likely to get religion
Another said II am willing to eat poorer foe
and to wear coarser clothes if NV children can b
educated, for if they are not, they will curse m
when | an dead and gone"
Another said II shall not leave my childre
much property ; but if they have learning the
can get property"
Another remarked "a black man who has
learning cannotIlook a white man in the face,
feels so inferior to him but il he gets learnin
be can hold up his head anywhere" All the
persons were once slaves, or are the children
emanci patcd slaves.
They voted unanimously to engage a teacher.
I gave them an account of my visits to other
lands, and of the prosperity of the black poop
was able to tell them that one of the princiI
magistrates of Barbados is q cOlored man a
that / became acquainted in Antigua with a lei
ing member Of the Legislature, who tod me
was once a slave, and now he owns a plantati
worth $50, 900,
saw no intoxicated persons in Jamaca O
when it is considered that every man there
make rum, it strikes mt as very remarkable.
You will, no doubt, sir, think with me that
opinion Of an old native resident of Jamaica
worth much more than any Judgement | may M
formed, during a few months residence the
upon the great subject of negro emancipatiC
and | send you for publication the following
ter which | have just received from Mr.. 5.
Slack.
CHAREs TAPPAN
From this letter Of Mr.. Slack we extract
answer to the first Of these nine questions.
Ar SEA, May "a, 1898
Sir During my passage from Kingston,
maica. to Philadelphia. the Rev. Lorin lhoiap s
of the Richmond Industrial Institution, parish
Metc1lfe, Jamaica, under the auspices OF the
lean Missionary Society, who was fellow-pas'
ger, pluced in my hands the following nine q
tons, which YOU had submitted to him dnI
syonr soiourn in Jamaca, with a request tn
would furnish him with answers thereto.
Accor lingly, / penned the following, as wei
the rolling and pitching Of the vessel, du
heavy gales of wind, would allow me-. And
am doubtful whether | will be able to meet
Thompson, | take the liberty of communica
directly with you.
In furnishing you with answers to your nine
portane questions, | deem it necessary to I'M
-, ,l,t 7 u " a nociya IF Jamaica. where |
lived for thirty years that | am the son OF a
rar,planter, late OF the parish Of Trelawny
principal sugargrowiug district of the isla
that | am alike we'll acquainted with plar
and The laboring and other classes ; and that
the last ten years i have been connected with
press of Jamaica, literary aud political, boil
town of Falmouth, the capital OF Trelawny,
in the city Of Kingston my last appointment
the latter place being manager OF the literary
partment Of a daily newspaper called The a
ing Journal, which appointment l held for ext
four years. mention these facts in ord
show you that am perfectly acquainted with
matter which has oceasioned the present Con
7nication.
QuEsTloN l.-What are the advantages Of
Il, dom over Slavery ?
i1fAnswer.-Were it not an undoubted fact
there are persons who contend that the mel
better adapted to a state OF bondage than OF
dom. | should answer that the advantages OF
dom over slavery are 50 self-evident as 10 y
ethis question unnecessary. But as there are
VILE who persist in talking and writing {
blessings" of slavery TO the negro, and II
deavoring to prove that freedom to him is a G
IN IS perhaps, requisite to offer a lew remai
refntaion OF 50 mOnstrous a proposition.
Those who endesvqr to resolve negro 81
into blessing to those subjected to its CO
generaly point to the care which, tits alleg
takon Of him in that condition in providing
his animal wants, as contra distinguished
tic squaiid poverty and misery that arr
serva6ie mong the starving myriads of En-
and Ireland and Jamaica, even is some
pHointed AZ, as eyincing what is said to be tn
'Jerfority Of the black man as a slave over hi
.ffitifh as, free man, I'm =,
~ Passing over the obvious evils that would
ITO tho human race were II to be established
"dactrine that nations aud individuals pos
nr1nneYinR themselves possessed, Of q high,