=1820.= =1830.= =1840.= =1853.=
Total slaves
in United States, 1,538,098 2,009,043 2,487,356 3,296,408
Cotton exported, lbs., 127,800,000 298,459,102 743,941,061 1,111,570,370
Average export to
each slave, lbs., 83 143 295 337

[48] The remarks in this chapter remain as they were in the first
edition.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE INDUSTRIAL, SOCIAL, AND MORAL CONDITION OF THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR
IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, HAYTI, AND IN THE UNITED STATES; AND THE
INFLUENCE THEY HAVE EXERTED ON PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN RELATION TO SLAVERY,
AND TO THEIR OWN PROSPECTS OF EQUALITY WITH THE WHITES.

Effects of opposition to Colonization on
Liberia--Its effects on free colored people--Their
social and moral condition--Abolition testimony on
the subject--American Missionary Association--Its
failure in Canada--Degradation of West India free
colored people--American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society--Its testimony on the dismal condition of
West India free negroes--London Times on same
subject--Mr. Bigelow on same subject--Effect of
results in West Indies on Emancipation--Opinion of
Southern Planters--Economical failure of West
India Emancipation--Ruinous to British
Commerce--Similar results in Hayti--Extent of
diminution of exports from West Indies resulting
from Emancipation--Results favorable to American
Planter--Moral condition of Hayti--Later facts in
reference to the West Indies--Negro free labor a
failure--Necessity of education to render freedom
of value--Franklin's opinion
confirmed--Colonization essential to promote
Emancipation.

We have noticed the social and moral condition of the free colored
people, from the days of Franklin, to the projection of colonization. We
have also glanced at the main facts in relation to the abolition warfare
upon colonization, and its success in paralyzing the enterprise. This
subject demands a more extended notice. The most serious injury from
this hostility, sustained by the cause of colonization, was the
prejudice created, in the minds of the more intelligent free colored
men, against emigration to Liberia. The Colonization Society had
expressed its belief in the natural equality of th