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aspirations of the country. According to the official report for 1886, the whole number of slaves liberated by the emancipation fund since 1871 was 24,165, at an average price of $288 for each slave—being less than 2,000 liberations per year. According to official returns, the number of slaves in the empire on June 30, 1885, was 1,133,228; and it is likely that Americans will drink coffee produced by slave-labor for at least a quarter of a century longer.
