For anyone who is sitting here feeling a little uncomfortable that these racial questions have raised their head, in the year 1790, for example, on the Island of Jamaica there were 10,000 of these free-coloured people.
À l'intention de ceux qui se sentent un peu gênés que ces questions raciales aient fait surface, je dirai que, par exemple, en 1790, à la Jamaïque, il y avait 10 000 personnes de couleur libres.