Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Thirty-Eight Years' Mission Life in Jamaica: A Brief Sketch of the Rev. Warrand Carlile, Missionary at Brownsville
The state of Jamaica after the Emancipation - General character and fertility of Jamaica - Former great wealth - Absentee ism - Decline of estates before Emancipation - Mortgages Folly of the planters after the Emancipation in driving the negroes off the estates - low general morality - Letter on the subject - Early missions - First Presbyterian mission - how missions were received by planters - August I, 1838.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.