94, estimated the sugar plantation slaves at 150,000; but this is clearly an overestimate.] [Footnote 47: Some of these are described by Judah P.Benjamin in _DeBow's Review_, II, 322-345.] [Footnote 48: _I.e_.from 150,000 to 180,000.] [Footnote 49: The crop of 1853, indeed, was not exceeded until near the close of the nineteenth century.] [Footnote 50: P.A.Champonier, _Statement of the Sugar Crop ...

in 1858-1859_, p.

40.] In Louisiana in the banner year 1853, with perfect weather and no crevasses, each of some 50,000 able-bodied field hands cultivated, besides the incidental food crops, about five acres of cane on the average and produced about nine hogsheads of sugar and three hundred gallons of molasses per head.

On certain specially favored estates, indeed, the product reached as much as fifteen hogsheads per hand[51].

In the total of 1407 fully equipped plantations 103 made less than one hundred hogsheads each, while forty produced a thousand hogsheads or more.