Others are more populous and less fertile.

The former would of course offer higher wages than the latter, for so sudden was the step there could be no common understanding on the point.

Again, as we have seen, the planters came into the measure with different views.

Some anticipated the general change, and either from motives of humanity or policy, or more probably of both, adopted a course calculated to gain the gratitude and good will of the laborer .-- These would offer wages which the less liberal would call ruinous.

Many, and it would seem the great body of them in Jamaica, yielded unwillingly to superior power.
They saw the sceptre of despotic authority was to be wrested from their grasp.