Workers Loading Bananas, Jamaica, ca.1875-ca.1940

Photograph of bananas being loaded onto trucks in Jamaica. Piles of picked bunches of bananas can be seen outside a small wooden hut. Two trucks loaded with bananas are parked on a roadside. A group of men and women are gathered where the bananas are piled.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. In 1800 the Scottish Missionary Society sent three missionaries to Jamaica. Two died of yellow fever within weeks of arrival but the third became a pioneer missionary. In 1824 a second venture travelled to Jamaica by invitation of local planters to instruct their slaves. Scottish missionaries worked at Montego Bay in the 19th century and in 1836 the first presbytery of the Jamaican Church was constituted here.