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nders always conducted the traffic. Making a correction for Mr. Carey's under-estimate, the whole number of Africans at all times imported into the United States will not exceed 400,000. Thus the number of Africans and their descendants in this country is nearly eight or ten to one of those that were imported, whilst in the British West Indies there are not two persons remaining for every five of the imported and their descendants. This is shown by Mr. Carey as follows: Imported into Jamaica previously to 1817, 700,000 negroes, of whom and their descendants but 311,000 remained after 178 years to be emancipated in 1833. In the whole British West Indies, imported, 1,700,000, of whom and their descendants 660,000 remained for emancipation, the rest having been previously emancipated by death, the result of the hard treatment they received from the philanthropical nation that is so very much concerned about American slavery. Conventions of delegates of Virginia and North Car