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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
slaves was in 1620, by a Dutch vessel which brought twenty from Africa to Virginia. In his work upon the slave trade, Mr. Carey, of Pennsylvania, says "the trade in negro slaves to the American colonies was too small before 1750 to attract attentbered 55,850 in 1714 of which 30,000 were brought from Africa. The importations between 1715 and 1750 are estimated by Mr. Carey at 90,000; between 1751 and 1760, 35,000; between 1761 and 1770, 74,000; between 1771 and 1790, 34,000; between 1790 anand 13 natives of Charleston. Foreigners and New Englanders always conducted the traffic. Making a correction for Mr. Carey's under-estimate, the whole number of Africans at all times imported into the United States will not exceed 400,000. TWest Indies there are not two persons remaining for every five of the imported and their descendants. This is shown by Mr. Carey as follows: Imported into Jamaica previously to 1817, 700,000 negroes, of whom and their descendants but 311,000 remain