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CHAP. XI.

Whether the Africans by good usage have not in several instances increased by births in the Colonies; and whether it be not clear from other facts as well as the opinions of persons in the Evidence, that they would increase by Population generally in Consequence of general good Usage, so as to supersede entirely the necessity of the Slave-Trade.

Estates in the Colonies on which the Africans have increased by births.

Captain Ross says, he knows of three estates in the island of Jamaica, one belonging to Lord Dudley, another to Messrs. Muir and Atkinson, and a third to Mr. Malcolm, on which there was a considerable increase of the slaves by birth.

Lieutenant Davison confirms the account given of Mr. Malcolm's estate: that gentleman, he says, had not bought a negro for ten or twelve years, during which time the slaves had considerably increased. Lieutenant Davison also knew an estate, where the negroes were all Creoles.

Mr. M. Cook knew two estates in the same island, on which he really believes the negroes to have increased by births.

Mr. Coor says, there was a plantation in Jamaica belonging to a Mr. Dunn, which, when he Mr. Coor first went there, was a small one, not for want of land butof

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