making L805. Total cost, L1,495, or L10
12s. per hogshead, while the cost of free labor on the
same estate is under L4."

[Footnote C: B.T. Young's Letter of January 12th, 1858, and
other letters from planters, published in the _National
Era_, August, 1858.]

In 1853, the French committee charged by the Governor of Martinique to
visit the island reported, that "in an agricultural and manufacturing
point of view the aspect of Barbadoes is dazzling."

Sugar is the most important export. The following were the amounts
exported before emancipation, according to Schomburg and Sewell:--

Average export, 1720-1800, 23,000 hhds.
" " 1800-1830, 20,000 "
Particular export, 1830, 22,769 "
Particular export in
year of emancipation, 1834, 27,318 "

(The weight of a hogshead of sugar, it should be noted, was only 12 cwt.
between 1826 and 1830; from 1830 to 1850, 14 cwt.; and now it is from 15
to 17 cwt.)

Yield in 1852, 48,610 hhds.
" 1853, 38,316 "
" 1854, 44,492 "
" 1855, 39,692 "
" 1856, 43,552 "
" 1857, 38,858 "
" 1858, 50,778 "

Average export, 1835-50, 26,000 "
" " 1851-58, 43,000 "

That is, an average more than double the export for ten years preceding
emancipation.

Besides sugar, other articles are exported now to the value of $100,000.
In addition, there is a large production for home-consumption, of such
articles as sweet potatoes, eddoes, yams, cassava-root, etc.

If imports are the true expression of a nation's economic
well-being,--as all sound political economists affirm,--then can
Barbadoes show most conclusively how much more profitable to a people is
freedom than chatteldom.

Average imports, 1822-32, L600,000
Imports, 1845, 682,358
" 1856, 840,000

The imports from America are increasing in rapid measure. Thus they were
in

1854, 36,416 bbls. flour.
" 1,500 " beef.
" 9,438 " pork.
" 49,106 " meal.

1858, 79,766 " flour.
" 2,646 " beef.
" 12,196 " pork.
" 67,053 "