Average export, 1835-50, 26,000 "
" " 1851-58, 43,000 "

That is, an average more than double the export for ten years preceding
emancipation.

Besides sugar, other articles are exported now to the value of $100,000.
In addition, there is a large production for home-consumption, of such
articles as sweet potatoes, eddoes, yams, cassava-root, etc.

If imports are the true expression of a nation's economic
well-being,--as all sound political economists affirm,--then can
Barbadoes show most conclusively how much more profitable to a people is
freedom than chatteldom.

Average imports, 1822-32, £600,000
Imports, 1845, 682,358
" 1856, 840,000

The imports from America are increasing in rapid measure. Thus they were
in

1854, 36,416 bbls. flour.
" 1,500 " beef.
" 9,438 " pork.
" 49,106 " meal.

1858, 79,766 " flour.
" 2,646 " beef.
" 12,196 " pork.