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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
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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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