A. D. 1788. 



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Couragement become a great objedi:. The trade is upon the whole but 

 trifling ; becaufe, being confidered as of inferior confequence to the 

 flave trade, the Britifli traders refident upon the coafl: pay no great at- 

 tention to it, and the flaving captains generally carry off" what articles 

 they do colled. Hence the veflels in the wood and ivory trade are ob- 

 liged to colled the articles as they can from the Negroes, generally by 

 trufting them with goods, which they barter in the interior country for 

 ivory and other things wanted, which occafions a prodigious lofs of 

 time. Mofl: of the articles hitherto imported are of luch a nature, that 

 a much larger importation of them could not find a market. *. 



yin Account of the number of Negroes imported into, and exported from, each 

 of the follozving BritiJJj Weft-India ifands, and of the fhlpping employed in the 

 importation from the beginning of i']^^ to the end o/' 1787 f . 



Imported. 



YearsVesl'. 



"1783' 2) 

 1784 



Jamaica •{ 1785! 



178Q 



Li787 



ToRTOLA 



Grenada:): 



Barbados 



10 



4 



8 

 1 

 3 

 5 



1 



25 



29 



25 

 4 

 6 

 4 



12 

 9 

 9 

 7 



13 

 2 

 5 

 7 



run 

 3,070 



6,460 

 5,330 

 2,170 

 2,696 

 1,755 

 273 

 410 



300 



645 



1,425 



630 



150 



200 



383 



2,205 



2,895 



3,445 



3,640 



630 



580 



690 



1.767 



1,170 



1,630 



782 



1,943 



145 



483 



831 



Men. 



7-8 



1,438 



85-1 



42(1 



493 



350 



55 



4h 



59 



log 



204 



111 



163 



20 



47 



80 



466 



550 



75! 



54b 



80 



107 



133 



252 



184 



213 



13/ 



312 



23 



74 



102 



Megroe 



9,644 



15,468 



11,046 



5,645 



5,682 



4,983 



143 



785 



7^ 



67s 



1,095 



2,126 



45 



1,581 



1,750 



300 



462 



562 



5,200 



6,254 



8,407 



5,709 



1,340 



1,240 



1,360 



3,36l 



1,881 



2,531 



2,005 



3,713 



149 



606 



713 



Exported. 



Total 



64 

 4,465 

 4,58Q 

 3,643 

 1,780 

 404 



247 

 68 



128 

 18.; 



341 

 107 



03 

 126 

 102 



13 



11; 



189 



2,018 



400 



91 

 50 



660 

 31 

 90 



536 



181 

 85 



* Report, part ufieet R ; part iv, no, 2.— There 

 are fome articles in the account of greater amount 

 than thofe I have fpecilicd, fuch as bitter and fweet 

 almonds, oil, &c. But, I apprehend, they are 

 produdions of the Moorilli flates (all Africa being 

 lumped together as one province in the cullom- 

 houfe books) and it is only the country of the 

 Negroes we are at prefent concerned with. 



f Report, part iv, ttc 4. 



X An account of Negroes imported in Grenada 

 in thefe years, contained in no. 15, differs condder- 

 ably from the numbers given in tlie account no. 

 4. And fimilv difagreements occur in the other 

 iflands. 



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