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------+-------+------ | | | | | |Excess | | | | | | |of cost| | | | | |Excess |of free| | | | | |of cost| over | | | | | Cost |of free| SLAVE | | | Average | Average |of pro-|labour | TRADE | | |available|available|ducing | over | labor,| | | produce | produce | one | slave |taking |In- |Average| under | during |cwt. of|or com-| the |crease |cost of| slavery |the last | sugar |pulsory|cost in|of cost |produc-| or com- | three | at | labor,|Brazil |in the | tion | pulsory |years of |present| per | at |British COUNTRY. | under | labor, | freedom,| date, | cwt., |7s. 6d.|planta- |slavery| for the | for the |exclu- |taking | per |tions |or com-|supply of|supply of|sive of| the | cwt. | since |pulsory| Europe | Europe |inter- |average|making |emanci- | labor.| and the | and the |est on |cost of| the |pation. | | United | United | capi- | the |average| | | States,| States.| tal, |latter | of | | | | | etc. |at 11s.| slave | | | | | | per | trade | | | | | | cwt. | labor | | | | | | |8s. per| | | | | | | cwt. | -----------------+-------+---------+---------+-------+------
-+-------+------ British | s. d.| Tons. | Tons. | s d. | s. d. | s. d.| s. d. Plantations. | | | | | | | Antigua | 7 6 | 7,767 | 8,963 | 16 6 | 5 6 | 8 6 | 9 0 Barbados | 6 0 | 17,174 | 16,378 | 15 6 | 4 6 | 7 6 | 9 6 Grenada | 11 0 | 9,634 | 3,779 | 17 6 | 6 6 | 9 6 | 6 6 St. Kitts | 5 0 | 4,382 | 5,558 | 19 0 | 8 0 | 11 0 | 14 0 St. Vincent | 5 6 | 10,056 | 6,636 | 19 6 | 8 6 | 11 6 | 14 0 Tobago | 5 6 | 5,321 | 2,514 | 19 6 | 8 6 | 11 6 | 14 0 St. Lucia, etc. | 5 6 | 9,600 | 8,650 | 19 6 | 8 6 | 11 6 | 14 0 Jamaica | 10 0 | 68,626 | 30,807 | 22 6 | 11 6 | 14 6 | 12 6 Guiana | 6 8 | 44,178 | 24,817 | 25 10 | 14 10 | 17 10 | 19 2 Trinidad A* | 3 0 | 15,428 | 16,539 | 20 10 | 9 10 | 12 10 | 17 10 Mauritius | | 35,000 | 50,000 | 20 0 | 9 0 | 12 0 | Bengal | | | 62,000 | 23 0 | 12 0 | 15 0 | Madras | | | 7,000 | 20 0 | 9 0 | 12 0 | Foreign | | | | | | | Free Labor | | | | | | | Country. | | | | | | | Europe | | | | | | | (Beet-root) B* | | | 100,000 | 24 4 | 13 4 | 16 4 |