An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens - In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Con by William Carey
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Whites. Negroes.
---- St. Eustatia 6 4 5,000 15,000 Dutch, English, &c. ---- St.Christopher 20 7 6,000 36,000 English. ---- Nevis 6 4 5,000 10,000 Ditto. ---- Antigua 20 4 7,000 30,000 Ditto. ---- Montserrat 6 4 5,000 10,000 Ditto. ---- Martinico 6 4 20,000 50,000 French. ---- St. Vincent's 60 4 8,000 5,000 The 8,000 are Native Caribbs. ---- Barbadoes 24 4 30,000 100,000 English. ---- Dominica 28 4 40,000 Ditto, 2,000 of them Native Caribbs. ---- St. Thomas 15 in compass. 8,000 Danish Protestants. This, as nearly as I can obtain information, is the state of the world; though in many countries, as Turkey, Arabia, Great Tartary, Africa, and America, except the United States, and most of the Asiatic Islands, we have no accounts of the number of inhabitants, that can be relied on. I have therefore only calculated the extent, and counted a certain number on an average upon a square mile; in some countries more, and in others less, according as circumstances determine. A few general remarks upon it will conclude this section. FIRST, the inhabitants of the world according to this calculation, amount to about seven hundred and thirty-one millions; four hundred and twenty millions of whom are still in pagan darkness; an hundred and thirty millions the followers of Mahomet; an hundred millions catholics; forty-four millions protestants; thirty millions of the greek and armenian churches, and perhaps seven millions of jews. It |
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