821 



Names of the Islands. 



b) Ba.rbadoes - 



c) Antigua 



d) Saint Christo- 

 pher, or Saint 

 Kitts . - - 



Total popula- 

 tion. 



100,000 



79,000 



40,000 



23.000 



3L000 



19,500 



Observations and Variations. 



40.) Other estimates make the importation 

 of the Africans to Jamaica since the con- 

 quest, amount to 850,000. (East and West 

 India sugar, 1323. p. 34. James Cropper, 

 Relief for West Indian Distress, 1823, p. 13. 

 Wilberforce , Appeal to Religion, Justice, and 

 Humanity, 1823, p. 49.) The population of 

 the free men of colour is generally estimated 

 too low. Mr. Stewart, who resided twenty 

 years in that island (till 1820), supposes it 

 to be 35.000, and the number of whites, 

 25,000. According to the Official Registers, 

 which I owe to the obliging communication 

 of Mr. Wilmot, in 1817 ; slaves, 343,145; 

 in 1820, slaves, 341,812. In the last 14 

 years, on a slave population of 342,000, 

 scarcely 600 marriages (257 a year) were le- 

 gally contracted. (Subst. of the Debate of 

 the House of Commons, 1823, p. 164.) 



Mr. Morse estimates the total population 

 in 1786 at 79,220 ; in 1805, slaves, 60,000; 

 free men, 17,130 ; in 1811, according to a 

 numeration believed to be very exact, slaves, 

 79,132; free coloured population, 2613; 

 whites, 15,794. In 1823, probably 16,000 

 whites ; free men of colour, of which the 

 number augments greatly, 5000. Total po- 

 pulation, perhaps 100,000. According to 

 the Official Registers, in 1817, slaves, 

 77,493; in 1820, slaves, 78,345. 



In 1815, slaves, 36,000 ; free, 4000; in 

 1823, probably free-coloured population, 

 4000 ; whites, 5000. Accordiug to the Offi- 

 cial Registers of 1817, slaves, 32,269 ; in 

 1820, slaves, 31,053. 



In 1791, slaves, 20,435 ; whites, 1900; 

 in 1805, slaves, 26,000 ; whiles, 1800 ; 

 free men of colour, perhaps* 2500. Accord- 



