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amount of cotton wool, coming from India and Turkey, and con- 

 sequently not raised by Negro labour ; and the state and amount 

 of cotton wool coming from America and the West Indies to 

 Britain, and consequently raised by Negro labour. I have been 

 enabled to procure the annexed official statement for one year ; 

 and find that both the amount and proportion still more extensively 

 display the value and importance of Negro labour. The year in 

 question was 1799. 



In time of peace there were imported annually into Great 

 Britain and Ireland from Bordeaux, Nantz, Havre-de-Grace, 

 L'Orient, Marseilles, and Dunkirk, between thirty and forty 

 thousand bags of cotton, that were grown in St. Domingo, Cayenne, 

 Guadaloupe, Tobago, and Martinique ; and a small quantity is 

 brought from the Isle de Bourbon in the Indian ocean. From 

 Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Middleburgh, and Flushing, in Holland 

 and the sister provinces, are imported between twelve and fifteen 

 thousand bags of cotton, the produce of Demerara, Essequibo, 

 Berbice, Surinam, and other Dutch West India Settlements. From 

 Denmark two or three thousand bags of cotton, the produce of 

 the Island of St. Thomas, and a small quantity from the Danish 

 East Indies are imported into Britain. From Spain, between six 

 and eight thousand bales of cotton, the produce of the Caraccas, 

 Cuba, and Porto Rico, are imported into Britain. All the cottons 

 whatever, consumed in Europe — except what come from Turkey 

 and the East Indies — are cultivated and raised by the labour of 

 Negroes. The quantity of cottons imported into Britain and 

 Ireland in the 210,231 bags, above-mentioned, at the common 

 average of about two hundred pounds per bag, is upwards of 

 forty-two millions : the proportion of the raw materials raised by 

 Negro labour, to the raw materials not raised by Negro labour, is 

 greatly above 7-eights, and not much under 8-ninths. 



COTTONS IMPORTED, AND FROM WHENCE. 

 The under were not raised by Labour „ . 7 , „, . No of 



of Negroes. Carried * Sh ^ Bags. 



East Indies ... British Ships 1 5,716 



Turkey ... do. 9,142 



24,858 



The under are all raised by Labour 

 of Negroes. 



do. 96,410 



Lisbon, grown in the Brazils — Sent \ 



to Lisbon in Portuguese ships, and 



from Lisbon to England in J 



Oporto, grown in the Brazils — Sent \ 



to Oporto in Portuguese ships, and do. 4,251 



from Oporto to England in J 



