 The negro's idea of emancipation" Trollope wrote, "was and is emancipation not from slavery but from work. To lie in the sun and eat breadfruit and yams is his idea of being free. Such freedom as that has not been intended for man in this world; and I...  The West Indies and the Spanish Main - Page 92by Anthony Trollope - 1859 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1860 - 68 pages
...position, any more than the vine can without the tree. Mr. Trollope says further, that " the negro idea of emancipation was and is, emancipation, not...not been intended for man in this world; and I say, as Jamaica now exists, is still under a deviVs ordinance. It would be well if we could so contrive... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...equally misinformed. * The Negro's idea of emancipation was1 and is emancipation not from slavery, hut from work. To lie in the sun, and eat bread-fruit and yams, is his idea of being free. to-morrow, he* will work a little ; as for anything beyond that, he is content to lie in the sun. '... | |
 | 1860 - 804 pages
...is to be expected from the blacks. " To lie in the sun and eat bread-fruit and yams is the negro's idea of being free. Such freedom as that has not been...it now exists, is still under a devil's ordinance." Education is a slow process with the blacks. But in Jamaica, as elsewhere, where slavery exists, there... | |
 | Asa Briggs - 1988 - 366 pages
...slaves, but he held that 'we expected far too great and far too quick a result from emancipation'.50 'The negro's idea of emancipation was and is emancipation not from slavery but from work.'51 Trollope strongly criticised 'philanthropists' of the Exeter Hall variety52 who objected to... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 1993 - 340 pages
...Trollope suggested that "he is idle, unambitious as to worldly position, sensual, and content with little The negro's idea of emancipation was and is emancipation...sun and eat breadfruit and yams is his idea of being free."17 Moving to another topic, Trollope expanded on his theme. "Intellectually," he proposed, a... | |
 | John Locke - 2004 - 684 pages
...regretted the freedom of the former slaves."" "The negro's idea of emancipation," Trollope tells us, "was and is emancipation not from slavery but from...Jamaica, as it now exists, is still under a devil's ordinance."32 If we take these writers at their word, if indeed blacks are living leisurely, effortless... | |
 | 1860 - 798 pages
...is to be expected from the blacks. " To lie in the sun and cat bread-fruit and yams is the negro's idea of being free. Such freedom as that has not been...it now exists, is still under a devil's ordinance." Education is a slow process with the blacks. But in Jamaica, as elsewhere, where slavery exists, there... | |
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