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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER II.
GENERAL RESULTS.
Having given a general outline of our sojourn in Antigua, we proceed to a mere minute account of the results of our investigations.

We arrange the testimony in two general divisions, placing that which relates to the past and present condition of the colony in one, and that which bears directly upon the question of slavery in America in another.
RELIGION.
There are three denominations of Christians in Antigua: the Established Church; the Moravians, and Wesleyans.

The Moravians number fifteen thousand--almost exclusively negroes.

The Wesleyans embrace three thousand members, and about as many more attendants.

Of the three thousand members, says a Wesleyan missionary, "not fifty are whites--a larger number are colored; but the greater part black." "The attendance of the negro population at the churches and chapels," (of the established order,) says the Rector of St.John's, "amounts to four thousand six hundred and thirty-six." The whole number of blacks receiving religious instruction from these Christian bodies, making allowance for the proportion of white and colored included in the three thousand Wesleyans, is about twenty-two thousand--leaving a population of eight thousand negroes in Antigua who are unsupplied with religious instruction.
The Established Church has six parish churches, as many "chapels of ease," and nine clergymen.


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