129,107 793,680 159,393 [Footnote A: Emancipated entirely on the 1st.

of August, 1834.] [Footnote B: Emancipated entirely on the 1st.

of August, 1838, by vote of the local legislatures in the chartered Colonies; and by Governor and Council, in the Crown Colonies.] The _unanimity_ with which the apprenticeship was given up is a most remarkable and instructive fact.

In the Council and Assembly of Montserrat, there was an unanimous decision in favor of Emancipation as early as February 1838.

In the legislature of Tortola, which passed the bill in April 1838, the opposing party was small.