The slave trade, domestic and foreign - Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by H. C. (Henry Charles) Carey
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every family of five free persons there came one
slave, this, would account for....................... 9,000 And if we take the natural increase of the slave population at only twenty-five per cent., we have further.............................................. 34,000 ------ Making a total from domestic sources of............ 43,000 And leaving, for the import from abroad............ 26,197 Deducting these from the total number added, we obtain, for the natural increase, about 29-1/2 per cent. Macpherson, treating of this period, says-- "That importation is not necessary for keeping up the stock is proved by the example of North America--a country less congenial to the constitution of the negro than the West Indies--where, notwithstanding the destruction and desertion of the slaves occasioned by the war, the number of negroes, though perhaps not of slaves, has greatly increased--because, _since the war they have imported very few_, and of late years none at all, except in the Southern States."--_Annals_, vol. iv. 150. The number of vessels employed in the slave trade, in 1795, is stated to have been twenty, all of them small; and the number of slaves to be carried was limited to one for each ton of their capacity. From 1800 to 1810, the increase was 378,374, of which nearly 30,000 were found in Louisiana at her incorporation into the Union, leaving about 350,000 to come from other sources; being an increase of 35 per |
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