POPULATION. 371 



By English merchants 10,649 



" merchants of Rliode Island 8,238 



" " of other foreign nations 5,177 



" " and planters of Charleston and vicinity 2,006 



of other Northern States 1,400 



of France 1,078 



of other Southern States 687 



Total . • 38,775 



In 1714, there were in all the English colonies, from New Hampshire 

 to South Carolina, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty Africans, 

 of wliom it was tliought that about one-half had been imported. H. C. 

 Carey, in his work on the slave trade, domestic and foreign, gives the 

 following estimate of the numbers of Africans imported subsequent to 

 that date : 



Prior to 1714 30,000 



1715 to 1750 90,000 



1751 to 1760 . . . .■ 35,000 



1761 to 1776 74,500 



1771 to 1790 34,000' 



Subsequent to 1790 ... 90,000 



Total 353,500 



By the United States census of 1790, there were 757,208 negroes, which 

 would make 464,858, the number of the natural increase. This would be 

 for the whole period of seventy-six years, from 1714 to 1790, a natural 

 increase upon those already in the country, and imported during that' 

 time, of something over one hundred and fifty-eight per cent., or more 

 than two per cent, per annum. 



At the date of the emancipation of the negro slaves, which practically 

 took place in 1865, they numbered about 4,600,000. Subtracting the 

 number imported during this period, viz : 90,000 (a very large estimate), 

 and not counting those who emigrated, this gives an increase of 3,752,792, 

 or the enormous natural increase in seventy-five years of four hundred 

 and forty-two per cent. If there be something repulsive to the delicate- 

 minded in this rapid pi'opagation of the human species under slavery, 

 perhaps it may be admitted that it were better, as in this case, that twelve 

 should be emancipated where one was enslaved, than as in the case of the 



