ABSTRACT
The appointed work for the Anglo-Saxon race in the Caribbean, according to Trollope, was to create a new race (created magically, it seems, from white and black men alone) ‘capable of living and working in the climate without inconvenience’:
when sufficient of our blood shall have been infused into the veins of those children of the sun; then, I think, we may be ready, without stain to our patriotism, to take off our hats and bid farewell to the West Indies.2
