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labor and a depreciating property.* These are facts which 

 never, so far as I know, have been taken into account by 

 those who have charged the ruin of J amaica to the aboli- 

 tion of slavery. They point to her large exports previous 

 to 1832, and insist that the island at that time was wealthy 

 and prosperous. They then refer to the reduced exports 

 since the abolition of slavery, and arguing post hoc prop- 

 ter hoc, deplore the poverty which that event has brought 

 upon the country. 



^Distribution of Slave Compensation.— The Commissioners for the appor- 

 tionment of the sum of £20,000,000 granted by parliament as compensation to 

 slave-owners, under the act 3 & 4 Will. 4, cap. 73, at the conclusion of their labors, 

 issued the following table. It shows the average value of a slave in each colony ; 

 the number of slaves in each by the last registration ; the total value of the slaves, 

 supposing the annual value of each were realized ; and the proportion of the 

 £20,000,000 to which each colony is entitled. 



Colouy. 



Average 

 value of a 

 slave from 



1822 to 

 1830. 



Number of 

 slaves by 

 last regis- 

 tration in 



tliiscountry 



Relative value 

 of the 

 slaves. 





£ 



s. 



d. 





£ 



s. 



d. 





27 



4 



11 % 



4,203 



114,527 



7 



5\ 





29 



18 



9% 



9,705 



290,573 



15 



3% 





44 



15 



2\ 



311,692 



13,951,139 



2 



3 





120 



4 



ih 



1,920 



230,844 



0 



0 





31 



16 



1% 



5,192 



165,143 



9 



2 



32 



12 



ioy 2 



29,537 



964,198 



0 



10% 





36 



17 



10% 



6,355 



234,466 



8 



Oh 





39 



3 



n% 



8,722 



341,893 



6 



3U 



St. Christopher's, . . . 



36 



6 



10% 



20,660 



750,840 



7 



1 





43 



8 



7k 



14,384 



624,715 



2 



0 





47 



1 





82,807 



3,897,276 



19 



0% 





59 



6 



0 



23.536 



1,395,684 



16 



0 





58 



6 



8 



2^997 



1,341,491 



13 



4 





45 



12 



o\ 



11.621 



629,941 



16 



2% 





56 



18 



7 



13,348 



759,890 



10 



4 





105 



4 



5k 



22,359 



2,352,655 



18 



0% 



British Guiana, 



114 



11 



5% 



84,915 



9,729,047 



13 



5k 



Cape of Good Hope 



73 



98 



11 



38,427 



2,824,224 



7 



9 





69 



14 



3 



68,613 



4,783,183 



15 



3 











780,993 



15,281,738 



15 10% 



Proportion of the 

 £2,000,000 to 

 which each 

 olocny is en- 

 titled. 



£ s. 



50584 7 



128340 7 

 6161927 5 



101958 19 

 72940 8 



425866 7 



103558 18 



151007 2 



331630 10 



275923 12 

 1721345 19 



616444 17 



592508 18 



234064 4 



335627 15 11% 

 1089119 1 3V 2 

 4297117 10 6% 

 1247401 0 734 

 2112632 10 11% 

 defic'nt fractions 



000,000 0 0 



d. 



0U 

 5% 

 10 k 



5k 

 0k 

 5 



11% 

 1% 

 3V 2 

 7 

 7 



0k 

 11% 



