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CONTENTS. 



—Don Francisco de Arango — Desire to ameliorate their condition 

 — First importation — Entire importation to America in sixteenth 

 century — Slaves in Cuba in 17 63— Activity of trade at the close 

 of the eighteenth century — Treaty with England. — [Note — Total 

 number imported.]— Compared with Jamaica — Other English 

 colonies (JVote) — Humane result in Cuba— Mortality of slaves— 

 Has diminished — Of newly imported negroes — Means to prevent 

 decrease— Abolition of slave-trade.— [Note — Not effective— Baron 

 Humboldt's sketch of slavery in Cuba— Decrease of slaves a fal- 

 lacy — Increase only paralleled in United States — Their well-being 

 evident — Chinese imported — Injurious influence and evil 

 results] . . . 211 



CHAPTER VII. 



RACES. 



But two now in the Antilles— Indians have disappeared — Confusion 

 of early historians relative to their numbers — Character of 

 estimates by early voyagers — Why Cuba might not have been 

 as populous as represented— Cruelties of first settlers — Early 

 mode of computing population— Movement of colonization in 

 Cuba — Law of proportion of races — Havana — Cuatro Villas- 

 Puerto Principe — St. Jago de Cuba — Density of population 

 —Populous and uninhabited districts — Impossibility of the mili- 

 tary defence of the island — Intellectual culture— Intelligence 

 of the Habaneros — Apparent distance from Europe diminished — 

 Declining influence of the old Spaniards — Admirable institutions in 

 Havana — The necessity of reform , . 232 



CHAPTER VIII. 



SUGAR CULTURE. 



Historical summary — Export of sugar from Havana to 1824— 

 From Cuba to 1852— Estimates of actual product — Wealth of 



