in the United States in Fifty Years. 



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and slaves, in the slaveholding States and Territories, on the 1st of 

 August, 1810, with the relative proportions of each: 



It appears from the preceding table that both descriptions of the 

 coloured population in these States had gained on the whites in the 

 preceding ten years, and that the slaves, which in 1800 had consti- 

 tuted a little less than a third of their aggregate number, now 

 amounted to a little more than a third. 



