By Edward Bean Underhill
During this publication, first released in 1862, Edward Bean Underhill offers an enticing account of a trip to the West Indies on behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society. He visited Baptist church buildings in Trinidad, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas in an effort to overview the spiritual kingdom of the various congregations that have been demonstrated there after the Emancipation Act. Underhill emphasizes that the non secular and social results of the Emancipation for the folks of the West Indies can't be considered independently of each other. He unearths that the islands, on their lonesome phrases, have made the absolute best use of the liberty bought. Underhill provides an difficult and bright description of his effect of the islands, yet his major concentration is on Jamaica, which he unearths has benefited such a lot of all.
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The case was tried by the Puisne Judge, H. T. Bowen, Esq. A black man was the offender: the prosecutor was a white man—the Supervisor of the rum manufacture. The charge was, that the black man, a carpenter by trade, one night waylaid the other, menaced him with a large iron implement or gouge, which the Supervisor, who was on horseback, with a thick stick struck from his hand. The assailant picking up his tool, ran away. The white man sought assistance; but while dismounting at the rector's gate, was attacked a second time, and received two blows on the head.
Not content with the instruction of the school, she would often, she told us, stop on the road any person M'ho knew how to read, and learn to master some difficult word or phrase. Nor would she rest till she had shown her proficiency, by reading to us from her large-typed Testament a chapter from the Evangelists. As the Presbyterian missionary often visited the school, from his lips Maria acquired a saving knowledge of the Gospel. The first effect was to marry the man with whom for years she had lived as wife, after the custom of slavery.
The hill of Naparima is of a conical form, some 700 feet high, and rises abruptly from the sea; its sides are covered with dwellings, almost lost to sight amid the thick foliage which shelters them from the scorching sun. To the right as you enter the open harbour is a singular rock, almost square, standing out alone in the sea. Our steamer landed its passengers at a well-built jetty of timber, 300 feet in length. The wharf was crowded with people, and in crop-time is an exceedingly noisy and busy scene.