The influential men among them, have always urged them to take up white men, unless they could find _competent_ men of their own color.

As they remarked to us, if they were obliged to send an _ass_ to the Assembly, it was far better for _them_ to send a _white_ ass than a _black_ one.
In company with a friend, we visited the principal streets and places of business in Kingston, for the purpose of seeing for ourselves the general employments of the people of color; and those who engage in the lowest offices, such as porters, watermen, draymen, and servants of all grades, from him who flaunts in livery, to him who polishes shoes, are of course from this class.

So with the fruiterers, fishmongers, and the almost innumerable tribe of petty hucksters which swarm throughout the city, and is collected in a dense mass in its suburbs.

The market, which is the largest and best in the West Indies, is almost entirely supplied and attended by colored persons, mostly females.

The great body of artisans is composed mostly of colored persons.
There are two large furniture and cabinet manufactories in Kingston, one owned by two colored men, and the other by a white man.