88 Mr Harvey on the Increase of the Population 
supply of slaves, is a subject worthy of much consideration. 
From whatever causes, however, the differences among the re- 
presentative numbers may arise, their remarkable disparity ren- 
ders it a question of peculiar interest, and worthy of a distinct 
examination. 
For the purpose of estimating the rates according to which 
the slaves have either increased or decreased, in the several 
States and territories, the following table has been computed 
from the respective population returns : 
States & Territories. 
Rates of Increase 
or Decrease from 
1790 to 1800. 
Rates of Increase 
or Decrease from 
1800 to 1810. 
Rates- of Increase 
or Decrease from 
1810 to 1820. 
A 
' Maine. 
New Hampshire, 
— 
94.9 
C/3 J 
Massachusetts, 
. 1 
Rhode Island, 
— 
60.0 
— 71.6 
58.3 
■y | 
Connecticut, 
65.6 
— 67.4. 
68.7 
& i 
[^Vermont, 
<3 
'New-York, 

3.4 
— 37.3 
_ 
32.8 
o3 
New Jersey, 
+ 
8.7 
— 14.5 
— 
30.4 
Pennsylvania, 
— 
54.3 
— 114.6 
— 
73.5 
_0> 
Delaware, 
— 
44.4 
— 47.3 
+ 
7.9 
Ohio. 
s 
Indiana, 
— 
19.8 
. 
r Maryland. 
+ 
5.4 
+ 2,7 
__ 
3.8 
0) 
Virginia, 
+ 
18.2 
+ 13.5. 
+ 
8.3 
2 
North Carolina, 
+ 
32.5 
+ 26.7 
+ 
21.5 
0Q 
South Carolina, 
+ 
36.5 
+ 34.4 
+ 
28.2 
£ 
0) 
Georgia,. 
+ 138.2 
+ 76.2 
+ 
42,2 
£ 
Louisiana, 
4- 2193.7 
3 
O 
Tennessee, 
227.8 
+ 
79.9 
co 
Kentucky, 
+ 224.6 
+ 99.7 
+ 
57.3 
'Alabama, 
+ 
20.8 
, 
CO 
Missisippi, 
+ 389.8 
+ 
92.0 
CD 
*3 
Illinois, 
+ 
445.8 j 
2 J 
Missouri. 
& 
Michigan. 
Eh 
Arkansas. 
1 
Columbia, 
+ 360.3 
+ 
18.2 
The entire Slave popu- ) 
lation, - j 
-1- 
28.2 
+ 33.2 
+ 
29,1 
With reference to the above table, it may be observed, that, 
in the districts of Maine and Massachusets, no slaves have been 
recorded in any of the returns ; and it may hence be presumed 
that these districts have been always free from this class of per- 
sons. In the census of 1880, the following States, in addition 
