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We obtain as the total number................... 333,500
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The number now in the Union exceeds 3,800,000; and even if we estimate
the import as high as 380,000, we then have more than ten for one;
whereas in the British Islands we can find not more than two for five,
and perhaps even not more than one for three. Had the slaves of the
latter been as well fed, clothed, lodged, and otherwise cared for, as
were those of these provinces and States, their numbers would have
reached seventeen or twenty millions. Had the blacks among the people
of these States experienced the same treatment as did their fellows of
the islands, we should now have among us less than one hundred and
fifty thousand slaves.

The prices paid by the British Government averaged
£25 per head. Had the number in the colonies been
allowed to increase as they increased here, it
would have required, even at that price, the
enormous sum of................................ £500,000,000

Had the numbers in this country been reduced
by the same process there practised, emancipation
could now be carried out at cost of less than.. £4,000,000

To emancipate them now, paying for them at the
same rate, would require nearly................ £100,000,000

or almost five hundred millions of dollars. The same course, however,
that has increased their numbers, has largely increased their value to