Slave Trade in the United States
The late census furnishes us some data by which we may approximate to the truth, respecting this atrocious traffic. The whole increase of the slaves, with the rate of per cent, for several periods, appears to be as follows:
From 1790 to 1800, 195, 144, per cent. 28; from 1800 to 1810, 290, 323, per cent, 32 1-1;
1810 to 1820, 346,700, per cent 29; 1820 to 1830, 470, 977 per cent 30 3-4
1830 to 1840, 338,515, per cent. 16 3-4 The whole increase for the Union, then, is 16 3-4 per cent.
The exports and imports of slaves have been Exports total …. 233,543 Imports, 221,548 Difference, 11,959
Value, at $600 a head, $140,12,800. They probably averaged, $900, or $210,188, 700. We have, then, authentic evidence of a traffic in human souls in our country to the extent of 20,000 a year, for the eight trading years . — Free American
(Liberator, April 16, 1841, pg 1)
