Where the Twain Meet

Where the Twain Meet

Spain first set foot in the Western World, and if the discovery brought great wealth it brought also much individual suffering and bitter hardship. In Jamaica, she found no people living in barbaric splendour, no stores of gold and silver and precious stones, only a lovely land, fruitful and fertile, valuable only to her because she did not dare let another nation settle so close to the rich possessions of which she was mistress. But the other nations of Europe were naturally anxious to share in the rich spoil of the West, and if Britain took Jamaica and held her, it was only I think because she could not take Cuba and Hispaniola. The Spaniards fought for every inch of the island before they lost it, and now for remembrance of them there remains but a few place names and legends of the treasure they left stored there. If colonisation was difficult for the Spaniards it was still more difficult for the British, coming from the cold North. No one was eager to brave the dangers of the tropics, and like the king in the parable, desiring to fill his tables for the feast, Government sought in the highways and byways for a population, and they imported white bondsmen and women, virtually a slave population, the first shadow that was to impede the progress of the land. Labour was branded. The men workedand diedin the fields, and the women became the mistresses of the young planters, so that marriage went out of fashion, and the free women were neglected and forlorn. And when they ceased to send the white bondsmen, they sought a substitute in the black man from Africa. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54403
Author: Gaunt, Mary
Release Date: Mar 21, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English