of the United States and Territories of North America . 71 
years. But the most considerable increment in the whole of 
the States and territories, is that which the province of Loui- 
siana received in the period from 1810 to 1820, amounting to 
2193.7 per cent. This immense rate of increase in the slave 
population, very much exceeds the increment of the whole po- 
pulation, and proves that the slaves have increased in a much 
more rapid ratio than the other branches of the population. 
This has arisen most probably from the circumstance, that the 
free settlers, who may have migrated to this territory, carried 
with them numerous slaves. The number of slaves, in 1810, 
amounted only to 3011 ; whereas, in 1820, they had in- 
creased to 69,004. During the same interval, the free branches 
of the population increased from 17*834 to 56,715. In 
the year 1810, the slaves were to the free population as 
23 to 138 ; but, in 1820, they were as 23 to 28 ; — -a 
change most melancholy for the friends of humanity to con- 
template, and most striking, when contrasted with the results 
obtained from other territories. From Indiana, for example, 
where in 1810 there were 103 free persons for every slave, and 
in the last census no less than 773 ; the slaves having decreased 
19.8 per cent., and the free branches of the population increased 
505 per cent. The state of Tennessee, also, received a large 
increment to its slave population, amounting to 227.8 per cent., 
in the decade from 1800 to 1810; and, in the succeeding pe- 
riod, another increment of 79-9 ; — the two increments having 
increased the slaves from 13,584, their number in 1800, to 
80,107, their amount in 1820. In Kentucky, in the year 
1790, the slaves amounted to 12,430; but an increment of 
224.6 per cent, received during the first decade ; another incre- 
ment of 99.7 per cent, during the second ; and of 57.3 in the 
third period, augmented the slaves, from the number before 
mentioned, to 126,732, their amount in 1820. Only two enu- 
merations of Alabama have taken place, viz. in 1810 and 1820 ; 
and, from a comparison of these, it appears, that the slaves in- 
creased during the ten years at the rate of 20.8 per cent. At the 
last enumeration they amounted to nearly 42,000. In the period 
from 1800 to 1810, the territory of Missisippi received an in- 
crement of 389.8 per cent. ; and this was succeeded by another 
of 92 per cent. ; the two increments having augmented the 
slaves from 3,489 to 32,814, their amount in 1820. In Illinois, 
