The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 278
... ports of the main- land did an extensive re - exporting trade , sending either to England or to some other British continental or West Indian port enumerated products that were of the growth of other colonies . Under the law , this ...
... ports of the main- land did an extensive re - exporting trade , sending either to England or to some other British continental or West Indian port enumerated products that were of the growth of other colonies . Under the law , this ...
Page 345
... Port Act1 opened certain ports to foreign shipping . But his efforts were too late , Spanish hostility was roused , and the result was negligible . The greed of the English merchants had been fatal throughout to the interests of the ...
... Port Act1 opened certain ports to foreign shipping . But his efforts were too late , Spanish hostility was roused , and the result was negligible . The greed of the English merchants had been fatal throughout to the interests of the ...
Page 449
... PORTS AND THE SLAVE TRADE 449 difficulties with Spain did not greatly affect the progress of the English slave trade and hardly at all the English African holdings . As the South Sea Company had no trading places in Africa of its own it ...
... PORTS AND THE SLAVE TRADE 449 difficulties with Spain did not greatly affect the progress of the English slave trade and hardly at all the English African holdings . As the South Sea Company had no trading places in Africa of its own it ...
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