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POPULATION OF THE WEST INDIES (AT THE CLOSE OF 1823.) 



Names of the Islands. 



I. English West In 

 dia Islands. 



Tota 1 p opula 

 tkm. 



776,500 



a) Jamaica 



402,000 



Slaves. 



626,800 



342,000 



Observations and Variations. 



The total population of the English West 

 India islands was estimated in 1788, at 

 528,302, of which 454,161 were slaves. 



Bryan Edwards, in 1791: slaves, 455,684; 

 whites, 65,305 ; free coloured population, 

 20,000. Colquhoun,in 1812 : total 732,176; 

 slaves, 634,096 ; free coloured population, 

 33,081 ; whites, 64,994. Melish : 673,070, 

 of which 70,430 were whites, and 607,640 

 slaves. Persons belonging, in 1823, to the 

 congregation of metkodists, in the English 

 islands, 23,127 blacks, and men of colour, 

 and 8476 whites. {Debates of May 15, 1823, 

 180.) 



In 1734, slaves, 86,146; whites, 7644; 

 in 1746, slaves, 112,428 ; whites, 10,000 ; 

 in 1768, slaves, 176,914; whites, 17,947; 

 in 1775, slaves, 190,914; whites, 18,500 ; 

 in 1787, slaves, 250,000; whites, 28,000 ; 

 in 1791, whites, 30,000; free men of co- 

 lour, 10,000; slaves, 250,000 ; in 1800, 

 slaves, 300,939 ; in 1810, slaves, 320,000 ; 

 in 1812, slaves, 319,912; in 1815, slaves, 

 313,814; in 1816, slaves, 314,038; free, 

 45,000; in 1817, slaves, 345,252. (Ancient 

 reports give for 1658, slaves, 1400 ; whites, 

 4500; for 1670, slaves, 8000; whites, 

 7500 ; for 1673, slaves, 9504.) From 1770 

 to 1786, 610,000 negro-slaves were import- 

 ed to Jamaica, of whom one-fifth were re- 

 exported to other islands ; there remained 

 therefore in the island 488,000. (Bryan 

 Edwards, Vol. ii, p. 64.) From 1787 to 

 1808, 188,785 more were imported; alto- 

 gether, in 108 years, 676,785 negroes ; and 

 yet there exists at Jamaica but the half of 

 that number, less than 350,000- (Hatchard, 

 Review of Registry Laws, p. 74. Cropper, 

 Letters to Mr. Wilberforce, 1822, p. 19, 29, 



