[13] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1828, pp. 33-35.
[14] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1829, pp. 21-24.
[15] "The holy fathers, monks and friars, had in their confessions and specially in their extreme and deadly sickness, convinced the laity how dangerous a practice it was, for one Christian man to hold another in bondage; so that temporal men by little and little, by reason of that terror in their consciences, were glad to manumit all their villeins."—Sir T. Smith His. Common, vide 2. Blackstone, p. 96.
[16] Two thousand slaves are said to be now offered to the Colonization Society for transportation.
[17] The slave population in 1810 was 1,191,364; in 1820, 1,531,436. Increasing in the same ratio, in 1830 it will be 1,948,587.
[18] The increase in ten years is about twenty-eight per centum, but as the increase of the latter portion of the period is much greater than that of the former portion, it will be evident that our estimate for a single year is correct.
[19] In 1828 it was $24,789,463. See Treasury Report for 1829.
[20] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1821-1829, pp. 25-35.
[21] Minutes of Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies, 1794, pp. 22-25.
[22] American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1801, pp. 37-41.