“ Whether the Africans by good usage have not in several instances increased by births in the Colonies; and whether it be not clear from other facts as well as the opinions of persons in the Evidence, that they would increase by Population generally in Consequence of general good Usage, so as to supersede entirely the necessity of the Slave-Trade. ”

“ Mr. Forster, speaking of the island of Antigua, says, that on the whole of Colonel Farley's plantations they had no need of new negroes. He has heard the Colonel say there was a considerable increase, but on one particularly. Mr. Thomas Gravenor's negroes also increased. He knew Captain Thomason, of Seacow Bay, Tortola, who wanted no new negroes for many years.
Mr. Duncan observes, that the treatment on the estate that he lived on, which was in the island of Antigua, was better than common: the effect was that the slaves increased. ”

“ There are many more children, says Jeffreys, among domestics than field slaves. Captain Hall says, that in his time the domestics were understood to increase by birth, and Lieutenant Davison, that they did actually increase. Mr. Forster gives an instance of rapid increase among the domestics. A widow Shervington was left in debt with five or six negroes, who by kind treatment in fifteen or twenty years increased to fifteen or more. ”

“ He knows several instances of the kind.
4.The Maroon negroes, originally Africans, who live in small communities in Jamaica, as free people, and who of course are not subject to ill usage like the slaves, are said to increase also. M. Cook believes the Maroon negroes to be increasing very fast. Lieutenant Davison asserts, that in his time they increased most certainly. He has often been in all their towns, and always saw great numbers of children. Their numbers were considerably more when he left, than when he came to the island. ”