30. Are the free blacks employed in the defence of the Country, and do they and the Creoles preclude the necessity of European troops? 31. Do the free blacks appear to consider themselves as more closely connected with the slaves or with the white population? and in cases of insurrection, with which have they generally taken part? 32. What is their general character with respect to industry and order, as compared with that of the slaves? 33. Are there any instances of emancipation in particular estates, and what is the result? 34. Is there any general plan of emancipation in progress, and what? 35. What was the mode and progress of emancipation in those States in America where slavery has ceased to exist? Hon. James Madison, Esq. New Haven, Mar. 14, 1823. Sir.--The foregoing was transmitted to me from a respectable correspondent in Liverpool, deeply engaged in the abolition of the slave trade, and the amelioration of the condition of slaves. If, sir, your leisure will allow you, and it is agreeable to you to furnish brief answers to these questions, you will, I conceive, essentially serve the cause of humanity, and gratify and oblige the Society above named, and, Sir, with high consideration and esteem, your most obt servt, JED'H MORSE. _Answers_ 1. Yes. 2. Employs an overseer for that number of slaves, with few exceptions. 3. ---- 4. Not uncommonly the land; sometimes the slaves; very rarely both together. 5. The common law, as in England, governs the relation between land and debts; slaves are often sold under execution for debt; the proportion to the whole cannot be great within a year, and varies, of course, with the amount of debt and the urgency of creditors. 6. Yes. 7-10. Instances are rare where the tobacco planters do not raise their own provisions. 11. The proper comparison, not between the culture of tobacco and that of sugar and cotton, but between each of these cultures and that of provisions. The tobacco planter finds it cheaper to make them a part of his crop than to buy them. The cotton and sugar planters to buy them, where this is the case, than to raise them. The term, cheaper, embraces the comparative facility and certainty of procuring the supplies. 12. Generally best clothed when from the household manufactures, which are increasing. 14, 15. Slaves seldom employed in regular task work. They prefer it only when rewarded with the surplus time gained by their industry. 16. Not the practice to substitute an allowance of time for the allowance of provisions.