Note (return) — THE FRUITS OF FREE LABOR IN THE SMALLER ISLANDS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES.

Notwithstanding the high price of land and the low rate of wages, the freed slaves have increased the number of small proprietors with less than five acres from 1100 to 35372 during the last fifteen years,--an increase which alone testifies to the remarkable thrift of the emancipated negro in Barbadoes.