<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" hand="#author" place="left"><ref xml:id="ed_uf1_sj5_1y" type="siglum" target="#cuba_W">W</ref> Si <supplied cert="high">aux</supplied> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002471 https://www.geonames.org/3491552">Antilles</placeName> <hi rendition="#u"> <lb />tous </hi>les <choice> <orig>negres</orig> <reg>nègres</reg> </choice> vont <lb />mourrir<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <choice> <sic>coment</sic> <corr>comme à</corr> </choice> <lb /> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010344">S. Christophe</placeName> et <lb /> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005116 https://www.geonames.org/3374084">Barbade</placeName> <unclear reason="illegible" cert="high">einst</unclear> <lb /> <choice> <abbr>propr</abbr> <expan>propriétaires</expan> </choice> sans esclaves <supplied cert="high">–</supplied> <lb /> <ref xml:id="f069ad1a-7bdc-48e8-a9ad-1a7bdc78e88a" corresp="#b3f01558-d47f-45ce-b015-58d47f95ce6c" type="editorialNote"> <choice> <orig>Coquhoun</orig> <reg>Colquhoun</reg> </choice><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 376, <lb />350.</ref><note xml:id="b3f01558-d47f-45ce-b015-58d47f95ce6c" corresp="#f069ad1a-7bdc-48e8-a9ad-1a7bdc78e88a" type="editorial"> <quote>Having thus taken a general view of all the British Islands and Settlements in the <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007952 https://www.geonames.org/3571219">West Indies</placeName>, it only remains to observe that a new era has arrived since the abolition of the Slave Trade, materially altering the state and condition of these islands. […] Under the present circumstances it is clear to demonstration, that the annual produce of the Sugar Colonies must at least be stationary. It cannot in the nature of things increase, unless the negro population can be kept up by the number of the births exceeding that of the deaths, of which there does not appear to be even the shadow of hope; on the contrary, a retrogade—a diminution may be expected.[…] According to this rate of diminution, the slave population would be annihilated in about forty years. […] It has been already shewn, that when <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005116 https://www.geonames.org/3374084">Barbadoes</placeName> and <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010344">St. Christophers</placeName> were first settled, the cultivation of the soil was conducted entirely by the emigrants from <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">England</placeName>, who grew rich and flourished before negroes were employed. And had they remained stationary, their dwellings would have been more numerous, and embellishments would have surrounded them, indicating comfort and contentment; which can never prevail under the present system, where the proprietors of estates too often consider the <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007952 https://www.geonames.org/3571219">West Indies</placeName> as a temporary exile, from which they are anxious to remove the moment they acquire property sufficient to enable them to support a certain rank in the parent country. Eagerly looking forward to this object, they court none of these accessible comforts (according to the practice of the French settlers) which are to be found in the <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007952 https://www.geonames.org/3571219">West Indies</placeName>; but devote their whole attention to those measures alone, which shall enable them as soon as possible to place their property under the management of attornies.</quote> <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/E5IPNATJ">Colquhoun</bibl> 1814, 375–376.</note> </note>