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CHAPTER VII.

COLOURED POPULATION

In the year 1755; the number of negroes in
this state, was 46,356—The white population
at that time being 107,203 The proportion
being 2.31 white to one negro.

By the year 1790, the proportion of colored
population had increased very considerably,
where being 111,079 negroes to 908,450 whites;
which is about 1.88 whites to 1 negro.

In the year 1800 the comparative numbers
were 157.649 negroes, to 921,993 whites:—
Proportion 1.75 whites to 1 negro.

In 1810, there were 145,429 negroes to
£35,117 whites:—Proportion 1,62 whites to
1 negro.

In 1820 there were 147,128 negroes, to
200,228 whites:—Proportion 1.77 whites to 1
negro.

The condition of the colored population
of this state, has undergone a very material
change within the last half century Fifty
years ago, nearly all the descendants of Africa
within the state were slaves. In 1790 there
were 8,043 free colored persons in the state.
In thirty years (1820) the number had in-
creased to 39,730, nearly live hundred per
cent. The increase of the number of slaves
in the state during the same thirty years, was
4,362, or only at the rate of four per cent
In 1799 not one fourteenth of the colored