No one received less than $1.00 a day and most of them earned $1.50.

The Trinidad press welcomed these immigrants and spoke in the highest terms of the valuable services they rendered the country.[22] Others followed from year to year.

One of these Negroes appreciated so much this new field of opportunity that he returned and induced twenty intelligent free persons of color living in Annapolis, Maryland, also to emigrate to Trinidad.[23] _The New York Sun_ reported in 1840 that 160 colored persons left Philadelphia for Trinidad.

They had been hired by an eminent planter to labor on that island and they were encouraged to expect that they should have privileges which would make their residence desirable.

The editor wished a few dozen Trinidad planters would come to that city on the same business and on a much larger scale.[24] N.W.Pollard, agent of the Government of Trinidad, came to Baltimore in 1851 to make his appeal for emigrants, offering to pay all expenses.[25] At a meeting held in Baltimore, in 1852, the parents of Mr.Stanbury Boyce, now a retired merchant in Washington, District of Columbia, were also induced to go.
They found there opportunities which they had never had before and well established themselves in their new home.