Note 40 — Chapter III
Reading edition
There exist but few estimates of the number of slaves in this colony:—
In1721,2,500–5,000.Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York, V. 604.
"1754,11,000.Bancroft, Hist. of United States (1883), II. 391.
"1760,"very few." Burnaby, Travels through N. Amer. (2d ed.), p. 81.
"1775,2,000.Penn. Archives, IV 597.