Page:Abstract of the evidence for the abolition of the slave-trade 1791.djvu/168

( 134 ) Now, if it could be made appear [sic], as it can, that the slaves in some of the estates cited, increased by the adoption of some one of the above regulations alone, and that they increased on others by adopting two or three of them, and no more, and that on no one estate, as appears by the evidence, were all of them in force at a time, it is plain, that if all of them combined were put into execution on each and every estate in the colonies, there must be an universal increase of the slaves there. C H A P.XIII.