t becomes a clear gain
to its owner.

25. Obtain information respecting the comparative cheapness of
cultivation by slaves or by free men.

26. Is it common for the free blacks to labour in the field?

27. Where the labourers consist of free blacks and of white men,
what are the relative prices of their labour when employed about
the same work?

28. What is the proportion of free blacks and slaves?

29. Is it considered that the increase in the proportion of free
blacks to slaves increases or diminishes the danger of
insurrection?

30. Are the free blacks employed in the defence of the Country,
and do they and the Creoles preclude the necessity of European
troops?

31. Do the free blacks appear to consider themselves as more
closely connected with the slaves or with the white population?
and in cases of insurrection, with which have they generally
taken part?

32. What is their general character with respect to industry and
order, as compared with that of the slaves?

33. Are there any instances of emancipation in particular
estates, and what is the result?

34. Is there any general plan of emancipation in progress, and
what?

35. What was the mode and progress of emancipation in those
States in America where slavery has ceased to exist?

Hon. James Madison, Esq.

New Haven, Mar. 14, 1823.

Sir.--The foregoing was transmitted to me from a respectable
correspondent in Liverpool, deeply engaged in the abolition of
the slave trade, and the amelioration of the condition of slaves.
If, sir, your leisure will allow you, and it is agreeable to you
to furnish brief answers to these questions, you will, I
conceive, essentially serve the cause of humanity, and gratify
and oblige the Society above named, and, Sir, with high
consideration and esteem, your most obt servt,

JED'H MORSE.

_Answers_

1. Yes.

2. Employs an overseer for that number of slaves, with few
exceptions.

3. ----

4. Not uncommonly the land; sometimes the slaves; very rarely
both together.

5. The common law, as in England, governs the relation between
land and debts; slaves are often sold under execution for debt;
the p