_Western Part of the_ _Free_ _Island_. _Whites_ _Colored_ _Slaves_ _Total_ Surrounding Country 118,000 15,000 119,000 252,000 Havana and Suburbs 43,000 27,000 28,000 98,000 ------- ------ ------- ------- 161,000 42,000 147,000 350,000 _Eastern Part of the Island_. Santiago de Cuba 40,000 38,000 32,000 110,000 Puerto Principe 38,000 14,000 18,000 70,000 Cinco Villas 35,000 20,000 15,000 70,000 ------- ------ ------ ------- 113,000 72,000 65,000 250,000 ------- ------- ------- ------- Totals 274,000 114,000 212,000 600,000 From the above we can see that at this time there were only 62,000 more white people in Cuba than there were slaves, and if we take into consideration the free blacks, then the negroes exceeded the white population by 52,000. This was perhaps inevitable when we consider that there must be labor to develop the plantations and that that labor was almost entirely provided by the slave trade. Nevertheless, the white population of Cuba lived in somewhat the same state of subconscious terror of the possibilities of a black uprising which tormented the planters in portions of the United States. But "that is another story" of which we shall hear more later. In 1813 the Spanish Cortes passed certain measures, which, together with the necessity for as accurate as possible an enumeration of the population of the island for the purpose of an equitable establishment of electoral juntas of provinces, partidas and parishes, made a new census obligatory. This was taken in 1817. The results of this new census were as follows: _Districts_ _White_ _Free colored_ _Slaves_ _Western Department:_ Havana 135,177 40,419 112,122 Matanzas 10,617 1,675 9,594 Trinidad (with Sancti Spiritus, Remedios, and Villa Clara) 51,864 16,411 14,497 _Eastern Department:_ Santiago (with Bayamo, Holguin, and Baracoa) 33,733 50,230 46,500 Puerto Principe 25,989 6,955 16,579 ------- ------- ------- 257,380 115,691 199,292 Total 572,363 The census of 1817 was without doubt the most perfect which had up to that time been taken; but, for the reasons before given, it was far from being an accurate enumeration. To these figures, before transmitting them to Spain, the Provincial Deputation added 32,641 transients of various kinds, and 25,967 negroes imported during the year in which the census was taken. These additions made the report read as follows: