The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 394 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. district have for some time been engaged in a lucrative export trade in fruits witli tlie United States. Jloranf Toicn, on the south-east side, near the extreme eastern headland of Morant Point, also carries on a considerable trade in oranges and other fruits. The oranges of Jamaica are the most highly appreciated in the American market. The term Morant, applied to the village, cape, bay, and har- bour, is of Spanish origin ; it has reference to the long
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 394 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. district have for some time been engaged in a lucrative export trade in fruits witli tlie United States. Jloranf Toicn, on the south-east side, near the extreme eastern headland of Morant Point, also carries on a considerable trade in oranges and other fruits. The oranges of Jamaica are the most highly appreciated in the American market. The term Morant, applied to the village, cape, bay, and har- bour, is of Spanish origin ; it has reference to the long ' delay ' to which vessels coming from the southern part of the island are frequently subject while endea- vouring to double the extreme headland in the teeth of the regular east winds. Administration. For more than 150 years Jamaica enjoyed almost absolute political autonomy; that is to say, the planters, masters of their slaves, were also masters of the Fig 187.—Chief Towns of JA\fAicA. Scale 1 : 2,700,000. 0 to 100 Fathoms. Depths. 100 to 500 Fathoms. 500 Fathoms and upwards. 60 Miles. Other inhabitants of the island, ' little whites ' and emancipated people of colour. The administration was, in fact, entirely in their hands. But after the abolition of slavery, the blacks, legally free, but de facto still enslaved, subjected to a thousand vexations on the part of their former owners, and deprived of all help from the planters, vainly attempted to take a modest share in the social and political life of the community. The pretended colonial autonomy of Jamaica was, in reality, nothing more than the absolute control of the white aristocracy over the coloured population, and the British Government was at last compelled, under pressure of public opinion, to put an end to the scandal. But instead of granting a few rights to the peoj^le of colour, it proceeded to
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