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=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
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