Note S — Front matter (continued 2)

A writer in the "New Orleans Argus," Sept. 1830, in an article on the culture of the sugar-cane, says,—"The loss by death in bringing slaves from a northern climate, which our planters are under the necessity of doing, is not less than twenty-five per cent"! Our tables prove the same thing. Of the 40,000 slaves annually carried south, only 29,101 are found to survive;—a greater sacrifice of life than that caused by the middle passage!