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from the footnote of my norton critical edition:

Annette's feeling of isolation can be understood by looking at the Jamaican population census of 1844 in which out of 377,433 people only 15,776, or 4%, were identified as white."

oh boohoo there aren't enough of her fellow colonizers around and her former slaves hate her so she's lonely :(