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We have seen that Jamaica has received from 

 Africa, 1 during these three centuries, 850,000 ne- 

 groes; and, according to a more exact statement, 

 nearly 677,000 in the one hundred and eight years, 

 from 1700 to 1808, and yet that island contains now 

 but 380,000 blacks and mulattoes, free and slave. 

 The island of Cuba presents a more humane result, 



America (Cuba and Porto Rico, the number for the latter being very 

 small), from 1821 to 1843 inclusive, amounted to 75,653 



If to this number we add importations to 1820, 



according to Baron Humboldt, ... 372,449 



1844 to June 30, 1853, as above, 47.122 



We have a total of 495,224 



This number is largely exceeded by the estimate we have given 

 above. The several parliamentary returns before us do not agree 

 with each other, nor with the reports of the British commissioners at 

 Havana. With the exception of those for the term from 1832 to 

 1837, our figures have been obtained from the annual reports of the 

 Havana commissioners to the British government, and represent the 

 maximum of slave importations in Cuba. Through the same polite 

 attentions, we learn that the number of slaves illegally imported 

 into Cuba ; during the years 1853 and 1854, has been 12,500, and 

 10,230, respectively. 



1 All the English colonies in the Antilles, which at the present 

 time contain only about 700,000 blacks and mulattoes, free and 

 slave, have received, in one hundred and six years, from 1680 to 

 1786, as is shown by the custom-house returns, 2,130,000 negroes 

 from the coast of Africa. — H. 



