Anita Arnon

slavery is the most complete subversion of the order of society.

He writes that too.

And he writes, it is time for the chains to fall from the hands of our brothers.

But, but, but, he doesn't say how and he doesn't say when.

Details it's very light on.

His main considerations, you are right, are about people like himself.

There's a quote that you'll enjoy reading because it kind of lends itself to, you know, the thing that he's really bothered about.

Well, it is good.

But I mean, some critics have looked back on this and said, you know, this is evidence of the Dalrymple Doctrine.

Really, what is really miffed about was that, you know, we did all the hard work, meaning we, the Creoles, the rich white Creoles, the plantation owners who made all this stuff, and it all just got taken away.

But nobody's liberating the slaves they've got already.

Well, I mean, they may well share, and again, this is conjecture rather than absolute knowledge, but in the conversations that he has while he is in Jamaica and he's penning this Jamaica letter, he may be hearing an awful lot of how he's feeling, which is, hang on a minute, the mother country, which is Britain in this case in Jamaica...

has served us really poorly.

What are they doing changing rules and laws?

And so that's swimming around in Jamaica.

The letter, which has these sort of grievances against Spanish rule from our man Bolivar, is a lot to do with that kind of disgruntlement about the depredations of the mother country, if you like.

But in those 7,000 words in this letter, he also talks about governance.

He talks about freedom.

Of course, the need to throw off Spanish rule and colonialism.

But also interesting, he does touch about something that will be very important later on in his life.