CHAPTER III.
RESULTS OF ABOLITION.
The actual working of the apprenticeship in Jamaica, was the specific object of our investigations in that island.

That it had not operated so happily as in Barbadoes, and in most of the other colonies, was admitted by all parties.

As to the _degree_ of its failure, we were satisfied it was not so great as had been represented.

There has been nothing of an _insurrectionary_ character since the abolition of slavery.

The affair on Thornton's estate, of which an account is given in the preceding chapter, is the most serious disturbance which has occurred during the apprenticeship.