46,[B] 57,956,800 14,395 6,047,150
Annual exports, 1847,[B] 77,686,400 18,077 6,421,122
Annual exports, 1848.[B] 67,539,200 20,194 5,684,921

[A] _Blackwood's Magazine_ 1848, p. 225.]

[B] _Littel's Living Age_, 1850, No. 309, p. 125.--_Letter of Mr.
Bigelow_.

[58] Macgregor, London ed., 1847.

[59] _De Bow's Review_, August, 1855.

[60] Macgregor, London ed., 1847.

[61] Ibid.

[62] _De Bow's Review_, 1855.

[63] 1800.

[64] 1840.

[65] 1847.

[66] American Missionary Association's Report, 1857, p. 32.

[67] The West Indies as they were and are--_Edinburgh Review_, April,
1859.--The article said to be by Mr. C. Buxton.

[68] The statement was made at a meeting which met to consider the evils
of the Chinese and coolie system of immigration into the West Indies and
Mauritius. It is not stated whether the amounts given are the whole
production or only the exports.

[69] The reader will remember that the Emancipation Act, of 1833, left
the West India blacks in the relation of apprentices to their masters,
but that the system worked so badly that total emancipation was declared
in 1838.

[70] They must refer to slavery in its later years, after the
suppression of the slave trade. Previous to that event, the production
of Jamaica was more than seventy-five per cent. greater than at present.

CHAPTER XV.

Moral condition of the free colored people in
United States--What have they gained by refusing
to accept Colonization?--Abolition testimony on
the subject--Gerrit Smith--New York Tribune--Their
moral condition as indicated by proportions in
Penitentiaries--Census Reports--Native whites,
foreign born, and free colored, in
Penitentiaries--But little improvement in
Massachusetts in seventy years--Contrasts of Ohio
with New England--Antagonism of Abolitionism to
free negroes.

In turning to the condition of our own free colored people, who rejected
homes in Liberia, we approach a most important subject. They have been
under the guardianship of their abolition friends, ever since that
period, and have cherished feelings of determined hostility to
colonization. What have they gained by this hostility? What has been
accomplished for them by their abolition friends, or what have they done
for themselves? Those who took ref