The Quaker Mission therefore was to be an "Industrial Mission" where freed slaves could work and learn a trade. Theodore Burtt their leader, without ever seeing Pemba, had spoken out at the meeting house in England saying it "be right for him to take up a plantation in the island, and prove to the world that the freed men will work honestly and perseveringly for their living."
Kiongozi wa ujumbe huu Theodore Bartt bila hata ya kufika Pemba, alisema katika ukumbi wa mkutano ndani ya Uingereza Ni jambo mwafaka na sahihi kwake yeye mtu alieachiwa huru kumiliki shamba kubwa ndani ya Kisiwa hichi na kuonyesha dunia/ulimwengu kwamba watu walioachiwa huru watafanya kazi kwa bidii na uaminifu na kuwa wastahamilivu na kujitahidi kujenga maisha yao."