A Review of the Colonial Slave Registration Acts: in a Report of a Committee ...
A Review of the Colonial Slave Registration Acts: in a Report of a Committee ...
African Institution (London, England)
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X Papers, No. II. p. 95. § Papers, No« IV. p. 122. II Papers, No. IV. p. 111. N. B. These are not returns under Register Acts, but under special Acts passed to supply the defect of a census, in con- sequence of the dbcussions on the Register Bill, and in order t» avert that measure. n date, nearly if not wholly repaired ; for the males were 5931, and the females 5714, while there were 3439 children whose sexes are not distinguished. In Trinidad alone, of all the colonies, returns of whose popul...ation, distinguishing tlie sexes, are before your Committee, is there a clear excess of males ; a fact easily accounted for by the recent settlement of the island, it having been made chiefly by means of the Slave Trade. Yet even here the evil is on the decline *. ^ \^ * The males originally registered there in 1813, were 10,917 adults, and 3255 children, together 14,172; the females 8206 adults, and 3339 children — ^together 11,545 ; making a differ- ence between the sexes of 2027. There also must have been a considerable improvement prior to 1813 ; because the returns to the commissary of population in 181 1, represented the island as then containing 1 1,8127 males, and only 0816 females ; the differaice being 2511, which, o& a population of 21,243, the amount of those defective returns is a much greater disparity than 2627 in a population of 25,717.
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