Note 17 — THE CROWNING OF THE COLUMN, AND CRUSHING OF THE PEDESTAL.
Reading edition
Slavery Value.After Abolition.After Abolition of Apprenticeship.Since passing Sugar Bill of 1846.Name of the Estate.
££££
120,00060,00045,0005,000Windsor Forest.
65,00032,00026,0005,000La Grange.
55,00027,50023,0003,500Belle Plaine.
80,00030,00020,0006,000Rabacca.
70,00025,00017,0003,000Sir W. South.
45,00020,00015,0005,000Richmond Hill.
435,000194,500146,00027,500
Slavery value, £435,000
Estimated present value, 27,500
Depreciation, £407,500
Or equal to 93½ per cent on original value.
—In Re Cruikshanks, in Chancery, Times, June 6th, 1849.