Consumption of the Human Species by the Slave Trade

--"It would be easy to prove, says Humboldt, "that the whole Archipelago of the West Indies, which now comprises scarcely 2,400,000 Negroes and Mulattos, free and slaves, received, from 1670 to 1825, nearly five millions of Africans!

In these revolting calculations of the consumption of the human species, we have not included the number of miserable slaves who have perished in the passage, or been thrown into the sea as damaged merchandise!"