January 1st, 1845, Samuel Campbell, a young Black Jamaican, started work as a natural history collector on a salary of $4 per month. The job involved stalking and shooting birds and mammals, preserving the skins, and gathering any other interesting plants and animals. It would last for 18 months. Campbell’s local knowledge helped make the zoological and botanical material assembled by him and his employer, English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, a major contribution to European knowledge of the biodiversity of Jamaica.