ABSTRACT
IN DECEMBER 1847, the sailing ship Apolline from London made landfall in Jamaica after an Atlantic voyage of six weeks. It carried only a handful of passengers, most of them returning home from business or schooling in Britain. But among them was a newcomer, a young Englishman of nineteen, Henry Clarke, setting out on a career as a humble schoolteacher in Jamaica. Little in his early life could have prepared him for what he was to encounter.
