| Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1863 - 282 sivua
...year of the Revolution, a noble earl wrote to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We can not allow the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Between that date, and the period of first importation, England had stolen from the coast of Africa,... | |
| Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 sivua
...1775, the very year of the revolution, a noble earl wrote to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Between that date, and the period of first importation, England had stolen from the coast of Africa,... | |
| John N. Holloway - 1868 - 602 sivua
...representatives " to put a period to negroes being slaves." But the Earl of Dartmouth interposes his edict, "we cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." In 1645 two reputable townsmen of Boston, " sailed for Guinea to trade for negroes." But when it is... | |
| John N. Holloway - 1868 - 608 sivua
...particular to the royal African Company of England." In 1775 the Earl of Dartmouth declares "we can not allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Prior to 1740 England had introduced into the colonies about one hundred and thirty thousand blacks... | |
| 1871 - 532 sivua
...India Islands. The British Government, by its appointed agents, declared in tones of menace that " we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And the trade continued " with unabated ferocity" until 1807. In sixteen years prior to that date, one... | |
| William James Gardner - 1873 - 536 sivua
...petitioned against them, and Lord Dartmouth, as president of the board of trade, declared they could not "allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Strange to say, that very year, in Kingston, a debating club, composed largely of slaveholders, had... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 622 sivua
...American congress in 1776, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: "We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 784 sivua
...English religious world, answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' 3 It has been computed that up to the year 1740 the number of negroes who had been introduced into... | |
| George Bancroft - 1878 - 624 sivua
...American congress in 1776, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: "We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 sivua
...preCB.T. THE SLAVE TRADE. 17 answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' 1 It has been computed that up to the year 1 740 the number of negroes who had .been introduced into... | |
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