 During Thistlewood's first year in Jamaica, he lived in an almost exclusively black world, having no contact with other whites for weeks on end.Such disparity was even greater in rural western Jamaica, where Thistlewood would eventually settle with the proportion of slaves to whites being as high as fifteen to one.Consequently, Englishmen like Thistlewood lived in an Africanised society that rested on white control through fear, inequality, and brutality.