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In 1776, the slaves were as follows: Massachusetts, 3,500; Rhode Island, 4,373; Connecticut, 6,000; New Hampshire, 629; New York, 15,000; New Jersey, 7,600; Pennsylvania, 10,000; Delaware, 9,000; Maryland, 80,000; Virginia, 165,000; North Carolina, 75,000; South Carolina, 110,000, and Georgia, 16,000.
Total in 1776,502,132.
st introduction of African slaves was in 1620, by a Dutch vessel which brought twenty from Africa to Virginia.
In his work upon the slave trade, Mr. Carey, of Pennsylvania, says "the trade in negro slaves to the American colonies was too small before 1750 to attract attention." The same writer says that the slaves numbered 55,85846 and 1847, it was 84,000 per annum.
Between 1840 and 1847, 249,800 were taken to Brazil and 52,027 into the Spanish colonies.
Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780.
In New Jersey, it was provisionally abolished in 1784; all children born of a slave after 1804 to be made free in 1820.
In Massachusetts, it was dec