Their young men of talent were glad to get situations as clerks in the stores of white merchants.

Their young ladies of beauty and accomplishments were fortune-made if they got a place in the white man's harem.

These were the highest stations to which the flower of their youth aspired.

The rest sank beneath the discouragements, and grovelled in vice and debasement.

If a colored person had any business with a white gentleman, and should call at his house, "he must take off his hat, and wait at the door, and be _as polite as a dog_." These insults and oppressions the colored people in Jamaica bore, until they could bear them no longer.