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15. The state of the negroes at the end of 45 years, will then be, slaves, 245,625

Post-nati fully emanc.i.p.ated (females), 168,470

Post-nati not emanc.i.p.ated, 485,905

---- 900,000.

16. In sixty years the whole number of negroes will be

1,200,000.

17. At that period the whole of the present race will be extinct; and we may also infer that one half of those born in the first thirty years will be also extinct; the number of slaves born in that period has been shewn, (prop. 7.) to be 172,500, the number of these then living will be 172,500/2, or 86,250.

18. One half of the post-nati free born, during that period, being now fully emanc.i.p.ated, may be likewise presumed to be extinct; their numbers (prop. 8.) will be, 277,500/2, or 138,750.

19. The state of the negroes at the end of sixty years, will therefore be:

Slaves born during the first thirty years, 86,250

Ditto born after that period, 13,125

Post-nati fully emanc.i.p.ated, 138,750

Post-nati under 28 years of age, 961,875

---- 1,200,000.

20. At the end of ninety years the number of negroes will be

2,400,000

21. Of this number, those only born after the first thirty years, being supposed to be living, the number of slaves (prop. 12) will then be reduced to 13,125.

22. And as the last mentioned number of slaves are supposed to be born within forty-five years, their whole number will be extinct in fifteen years more, that is, in _one hundred =and= five_ years from the first adoption of the plan.

23. By prop. 19. it appears, that out of 1,200,000 negroes, there will then be 961,875 under the age of twenty-eight years, the period of emanc.i.p.ation.

24. We may therefore conclude, that from _two-thirds_ to _three-fourths_ of the whole number of blacks will _always_ be liable to service.]

I am not vain enough to presume the plan I have suggested entirely free from objection; nor that in offering my own ideas on the subject, I have been more fortunate than others: but from the communication of sentiment between those who lament the evil, it is possible that an effectual remedy may at length be discovered. Whenever that happens the golden age of our country will begin. Till then,

----_Non hospes ab hospite tutus,

Non Herus a Famulie: fratrum quoque gratia rara._

THE END.

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