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in 1795, and the other in 1800, very nearly their 

 present population, without any necessity of loading 

 400,000 negroes with chains, in Africa, and dragging 

 them to Port Royal or Havana. 



The mortality of the negroes varies greatly in 

 Cuba, according to the kind of labor, the humanity 

 of the masters or overseers, and the number of 

 women employed in taking care of the sick. I have 



Gallatin thinks that the United States, which, at the close of 1823, 

 had a population of 1,665,000 slaves, and 250,000 free colored, being 

 a total of 1,915,000 blacks and mulattoes, never received from the 

 * coast of Africa over 300,000 negroes, that is to say, 1,183,000 less 

 than those received from 1680 to 1786, by the English Antilles, the 

 black and mulatto population of which, now barely exceeds one-third 

 part of that of the United States. — H. 



Mr. Carey, of Pennsylvania, in his work on the slave-trade, says, 

 " the trade in negro slaves to the American colonies was too small 

 to attract attention." After a close argument from the ratio of 

 increase since the first census, Mr. C. is enabled to recur back, and 

 compute the population at earlier periods, separating the native 

 born from importations. Setting out with the fact that the slaves 

 (blacks), numbered 55,850 in 1714, he finds that there were brought, 



of these, 



From Africa, 30,000 



Importation from 1715 to 1750 90,000 



" " 1751 « 1760 35,000 



" « 1761 « 1770 74,000 



« « im u 1790 34)000 



* " 1790 » 1808 70,000 



Total numbfr imported, 333,000 



Compend. of Census of U. States, 1850, p. 83, note. 



