FOOTNOTES:
[1] It is about as large as eight common New England towns.
[2] It must not be inferred from this statement that the system of slavery was more cruel in the West Indies, than in other sugar-growing Colonies and States. Wherever sugar is produced by slave-labor, there is always an awful destruction of negro life, owing to the severely hard pressure of work, continued night and day, during one particular season of the crops.
[3] There were in Antigua, at that time, 1,980 whites; 29,537 slaves; and 3,895 free colored people.