[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808)
CHAPTER IV
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But this was not necessary.
There was another species of facts, which would answer the same end.
Previously to the year 1730 the decrease of the slaves in our islands was very considerable.
From 1730 to 1755 the deaths were reduced to only two and a half per cent.
above the births: from 1755 to 1768 to only one and three fourths; and from 1768 to 1788 to only one per cent.
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