This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...and plantains--he struck work, and contented himself with doing no more than the very little that was necessary to support life and buy himself a coloured cotton neckerchief. Thus great tracts of fertile land were allowed to go out of cultivation, every plantation permitted to run to waste only ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...and plantains--he struck work, and contented himself with doing no more than the very little that was necessary to support life and buy himself a coloured cotton neckerchief. Thus great tracts of fertile land were allowed to go out of cultivation, every plantation permitted to run to waste only increasing the area open to the squatter, who, indeed, naturally preferred to settle upon land that had been lately tilled, and where fruit-trees were already flourishing, rather than to make his own Eden on fresh and hitherto uncultivated soil. There was thus action and reaction, and in this way the results of emancipation were much more disastrous than in Barbados, where there was not an inch of waste soil on which to squat, and where the law, " if any man will not work, neither shall he eat "--always provided you can stop or seriously check his thieving--holds good as much as on a Sussex farm! Perhaps the reader is inclined to ask, " Why, if the negro is so invincibly lazy, did not the Barbadian black man emigrate to one of the other islands where rich land lay waste, and, pitching his hut under the first bread-fruit tree, call no man ' master '? " But the truth is, the negro is not invincibly lazy; he is only very lazy. He prefers a little work with good health to no work with liability to those frequent attacks of " fever and ague," and similar ailments, which are among the least of the ills he has good reason to dread when he turns his back upon Barbados, so he resolutely turns away from placards on dead walls offering him high wages in Guiana or Trinidad, and as much as from one dollar to three dollars a day in Panama, and chooses to remain lord of himself here, where he will work for three or four days a week for from one shilling to one...
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