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families, in cabins which they deem their own, the 

 more rapid is their multiplication. The slaves in the 

 United States were as follows : — 



1800. . ..894,444 



The annual increase 1 for the last ten years, has 

 been (without counting the manumission of 100,000), 

 26,000, which is doubling in 27 years. I will say, 

 therefore, with Mr. Cropper, 2 that if the slaves in 

 Jamaica and Cuba had multiplied in the same 

 proportion, 3 these two islands would have had, one * 



J The increase of the slaves from 1790 to 1810 (514,668), arises as 

 follows : — 1st. The natural increase in the families ; 2d. The 

 importation of 30,000 negroes, between 1804 and 1808, which was, 

 unhappily, permitted by the Legislature of South Carolina ; 3d. The 

 acquisition of Louisiana, where there were 30,000 negroes. The 

 increase from the last two causes has been only | of the total 

 increase, and has been compensated by the manumission of more 

 than 100,000 negroes, who. in 1810, ceased to appear in the slave 

 returns. The slaves multiply somewhat less rapidly (the exact 

 proportion being 0.02611 to 0.02915), than the total population of 

 the United States ; but their multiplication is more rapid than that 

 of the whites, wherever they form a considerable portion of the 

 population, as in the southern states. (Morseh Mod. Geogr. 1822, 

 p. 608.) — H. 



2 Letter addressed to the Liverpool Society, 1823, p. 18. — H. 

 8 The number of 480,000, in the year 1770, is not based upon an 

 actual census, it being only an approximate estimate. Albert 



1770. ...480,000 

 1791... 676,696 



1810. ...1,191,364 

 1820.... 1,541,568 



