VI 
CONTENTS. 
the number of slaves annually exported from Africa.-—Causes thereof. 
Mode of transporting negroes to the West Indies, and the regula¬ 
tions recently established by act of parliament .—Effects of those regu¬ 
lations. .. 
309 
CHAP. V. 
Arrival and sale in the West Indies.—Negroes newly purchased, how 
disposed of and employed.—Detail of the management of negroes on 
a sugar plantation.—Mode of maintaining them. — Houses, cloathing, 
and medical care .—Abuses .—Late regulations for their protection 
and security .—Causes of their annual decrease—Polygamy, &c.— 
Slavery in its mildest form unfriendly to population.—General obser¬ 
vations.—Proposals for the further meliorating the condition of the 
slaves, with which the subject concludes .. 337 
APPENDIX to BOOK IF. 
Consolidated Slave Act .... 37 2 
Account of the number of ships, with their tonnage, which cleared 
from Great Britain to Africa in each year, from 1700, together 
with the total exports to Africa in each year, during the same periods ; 
distinguishing the value of the British, India , and Foreign goods ; 
to which are added the quantity and value of each article from the 
year 1782...407 
