Mr. Froude's Negrophobia. 123 
On the other hand, during the past 95 years, the Africans 
in the British West Indies have remained under English 
influence and control. So far from those of to-day being 
" emancipated slaves," as Mr. FROUDE calls them (p. 
351), the majority of them were born free, and the 
second and third generations of freemen are now growing 
up. So far from acquiring the land they possess in the 
violent manner used by the Haytians, the British African 
has paid for his provision grounds, his cocoa walks, and 
for his plantations. One would infer, from Mr. Froude'S 
statement : " In the Antilles, the plantations broke up 
" as I had seen in Grenada. The whites went away> 
" and the land was divided among the negroes" (p. 106), 
that the Africans had quietly taken over the abandoned 
lands, and squatted upon them. The truth is, however, 
that they paid a high price for their land in Grenada, 
where agricultural land is worth many times as much per 
acre as its value in England. Land in that fertile island 
continues to rise in value. It is difficult to say what 
land in bearing Cocoa is not worth. As to ordinary 
land, there is the recent instance of a small property 
called Mount Gay, in the parish of St. George. It com- 
prises about 160 acres. A month or two ago £2,000 were 
offered for the property, and refused, although about 
eighteen months before only £800 had been paid for it. 
The industry of the Black man has thus raised the value 
of land in Grenada. Mr. FROUDE says that the English 
are clearing out of Grenada at their best speed (p. 55). 
He has been misinformed. There are more whites in 
that island now than there were twenty years ago. Many 
whites would be glad to own property there if they 
could get it on their own terms. Since the Emancipa- 
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