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APPENDIX TO BOOK II. 



No. I. 



A general state of agriculture ', and Negro population in the 

 island of Jamaica, at the close of 1791, from the report 

 of a Committee of the House of Assembly. 



Negroes 



Number, employed 

 thereon. 



Sugar plantations, - - 767 140,000 



Coffee plantations - - 607 21,000 



Grazing and breeding farms called penns 1,047 31,000 

 Of small settlements for the growth 

 cotton, ginger, pimento, corn and o- f 



ther provisions, the number is not as- . 



. ,. > - - 58,000 



certamed; they are supposed (inclu- 

 ding the negroes in the several towns) 

 to give employment to 



Total number of enslaved negroes in . 



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amaica in 1791 ... 



