One of the wealthiest merchants in Bridgetown is a colored gentleman.

He has his mercantile agents in England, English clerks in his employ, a branch establishment in the city, and superintends the concerns of an extensive and complicated business with distinguished ability and success.

A large portion, of not a majority of the merchants of Bridgetown are colored.
Some of the most popular instructors are colored men and ladies, and one of these ranks high as a teacher of the ancient and modern languages.
The most efficient and enterprising mechanics of the city, are colored and black men.

There is scarcely any line of business which is not either shared or engrossed by colored persons, if we except that of _barber_.

_The only barber in Bridgetown is a white man._ That so many of the colored people should have obtained wealth and education is matter of astonishment, when we consider the numerous discouragements with which they have ever been doomed to struggle.