FOOTNOTES:
[139] From the year 1500 to 1860 the number of slaves imported from Africa were as follows:
| Number of Negroes imported into America per annum. | Total. | |
| From 1500 to 1525 | 500 | 12,500 |
| From 1525 to 1550 | 5,000 | 125,000 |
| From 1550 to 1600 | 15,000 | 750,000 |
| From 1600 to 1650 | 20,000 | 1,000,000 |
| From 1650 to 1700 | 35,000 | 1,750,000 |
| From 1700 to 1750 | 60,000 | 3,000,000 |
| From 1750 to 1800 | 80,000 | 4,000,000 |
| From 1800 to 1850 | 65,000 | 3,250,000 |
| Total, 350 years | 13,887,500 | |
| From 1850 to 1860, increase for decade | 749,931 | |
| Total importation of Negro slaves into America during a period of 360 years | 14,637,431 | |
| or about 15,000,000 in round numbers. | ||
The above figures are taken from Mr. Dunbar's Mexican Papers. The process by which he reaches his conclusions and secures his figures is rather remarkable.
[140] This includes the officers, most of whom were white men.
[141] Thus far the Negro has not gone, as an author, beyond mere narration. But we may soon expect a poet, a novelist, a composer, and a philosophical writer.
[142] Revue Scientifique, Paris.
THE END.
APPENDIX.
Part 5.
ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION.