The petition of the Assembly of Jamaica, in 1775, plainly recognizes the source of danger here alluded to. “Weak and feeble (says the Assembly) as this colony is, from its very small number of white inhabitants, and its peculiar situation, from the incumbrance of more than 200,000 Slaves,” &c. &c. Footnote 55: For the illustration of this part of the subject, and of many other topics which I have slightly touched, I must refer my readers to Mr. Brougham’s Colonial Policy; a work from some parts of which I must express my decided dissent, but which contains a most valuable fund of commercial and financial, political and moral facts, and suggestions on all the various subjects connected with colonial interests and affairs. Footnote 56: See Mr. Parke’s account of his journey to the coast from the interior. Footnote 57: Let it be considered what immense numbers of Negroes have of late years been removed from our older islands to Trinidad, or to Guiana. Footnote 58: Compare this with Captain Hill’s and Wilson’s, and especially with Mr. Wadstrom’s evidence. Footnote 59: Compare this with Mr. Howe’s evidence. Footnote 60: Compare this with the absolute denial of such practices, or of any term for them, by Opponents’ witnesses. Footnote 61: Page 42. Footnote 62: Vol. ii. 237. English translation by Blagdon. Footnote 63: Vol. ii. 340–1. Footnote 64: House of Commons Evidence, p. 4, 5. Footnote 65: Ditto, p. 81–2. Footnote 66: House of Commons Evidence, p. 40. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 1, added a missing chapter title "INTRODUCTION." 2. P. 135, changed “Never was scene more distressful” to “Never was the scene more distressful”. 3. P. 319, changed “cruelty, a contrary” to “cruelty, as contrary”. 4. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 5. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 6. Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 7. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 8. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, by William Wilberforce