table exhibits the extent and population of these
colonies.

Possessions. Date of Extent. Population
acquisit. sq. m. White Slaves F. Col.
Anguilla[B], 1650 . . . 365 2,388 327
Antigua[A], 1632 108 1,980 29,537 3,895
Bahamas[B], 1629 4,400 4,240 9,268 2,991
Barbados[B], 1625 166 14,959 82,807 5,146
Bermudas[A], 1611 22 3,905 4,608 738
Dominica[B], 1783 275 840 15,392 3,606
Grenada[B], 1783 125 801 24,145 3,786
Jamaica[B], 1655 6,400 37,000 311,692 55,000
Montserrat[B], 1632 47 330 6,262 814
Nevis[B], 1628 20 700 9,259 2,000
St. Christophers[B],1632 68 1,612 19,310 3,000
St. Lucia[B], 1803 58 972 13,661 3,718
St. Vincent[B], 1783 130 1,301 23,589 2,824
Tobago[B], 1763 187 322 12,556 1,164
Trinidad[B], 1797 2,460 4,201 24,006 15,956
Tortola, or
Virgin Isles[B], 1666 . . . 800 5,399 607

Total, B.W.I . . . 14,466 74,328 593,879 105,572
Cape of Good Hope, . . . . . . 43,000 35,500 29,000
Berbice[B] . . . . . . 523 20,645 1,161
Guiana Demarara[B] 1803 . . . 3,006 65,556 6,360
Essequibo[B], . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Honduras, 1650 62,750 250 2,100 2,300
Mauritius, . . . . . . 8,000 76,000 15,000
Total. . . . . . . 129,107 793,680 159,393

[Footnote A: Emancipated entirely on the 1st. of August, 1834.]

[Footnote B: Emancipated entirely on the 1st. of August, 1838, by vote
of the local legislatures in the chartered Colonies; and by Governor and
Council, in the Crown Colonies.]

The _unanimity_ with which the apprenticeship was given up is a most
remarkable and instructive fact. In the Council and Assembly of
Montserrat, there was an unanimous decision in favor of Emancipation as
early as February 1838. In the legislature of Tortola, which passed the
bill in April 1838, the opposing party was small. In that of Barbados
the bill was passed on the 15th of May with but _one_ dissenting voice.
In that of Jamaica, the bill seems to have been passed on the 8th of
June, and the _Jamaica Times_