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New York Journal of Commerce Jan. 5, 1841.
SLAVERY IN CONNECTICUT.--The Hartford Patriot says there are 8111 free colored persons
in Connecticut, according to the late census, and 54 blacks claimed as slaves. In
1830 there were 8064 free blacks, and 25 slaves. The increase of free colored persons
in the last ten years, if this statement be correct, is 47; or a little more than
1/2 of one percent, and of slaves 29, or more than 100 percent. There are very few
States in the Union where the slave population has increased in so rapid a ratio.
We leave it to the Abolitionists to explain this phenomenon.
