APPENDIX. 399 



In 1764 - 1 ship 



1765 none 

 From 1776 to 1786 there were 47 



Making a total of 51 slave ships in 

 forty-two years, averaging about one hundred and twenty 

 slaves. There were certainly more embarked in Africa, but 

 whether from bad treatment or misfortune, many of the vessels 

 arrived with only sixty slaves on board, when it was a well 

 known fact, they had shipped upwards of two hundred. Be- 

 side importations, there were seasoned people imported by 

 the British settlers from the West-Indian islands, which are not 

 noticed in this statement. When we reflect, that in 1786, 

 there were not more than forty thousand negroes in the two 

 colonies, and that seventy-five thousand had been imported in 

 the last forty-two years, exclusive of those brought into the 

 colonies previous to an office being established for entering the 

 vessels at, and the negroes imported by the English settlers 

 without taking into consideration the number of children which 

 would naturally be born within that period, what an immense 

 loss and dreadful sacrifice of lives appear to have taken place. 



I can only account for it thus: negroes were sold in the 

 years alluded to from twenty to forty pounds sterling, at fifteen 

 months credit ; from their bearing such a trifling value, 1 fear 

 they were too frequently sacrificed by hard work, and ill treat- 



