in the United States in Fifty Years. 



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free and slave portions of the coloured population, and between the 

 males and females of each, according to the three last enumera- 

 tions, when the discriminations were first made : 



I. — The proportion of coloured Males and Females, according to the census of 1820. 



II. — The proportion of coloured Males and Females, according to the census of 1830. 



III. — The proportion of coloured Males and Females-, according to the census of 1840. 



These tables seem to indicate a much greater mortality among 

 the males than the females of the free coloured population ; as 

 though, in the class under the age of puberty, the males exceed the 

 females about 2 or 3 per cent, yet, in all the subsequent periods of 

 life, the females have the preponderance, and after the age of fifty- 

 five the disproportion greatly increases. Part of this excess, indeed, 



