The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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It has been seen that Africa was one of the main fields into which the stream of evangelical missionary enthusiasm poured in the latest years of the eighteenth and in the nineteenth century ...
It has been seen that Africa was one of the main fields into which the stream of evangelical missionary enthusiasm poured in the latest years of the eighteenth and in the nineteenth century ...
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by the simple practice of kidnapping the inhabitants of the coastal districts seems too absurd to need contradiction , but as the question was put to witnesses in the parliamentary enquiry about the African trade in 1817 ...
by the simple practice of kidnapping the inhabitants of the coastal districts seems too absurd to need contradiction , but as the question was put to witnesses in the parliamentary enquiry about the African trade in 1817 ...
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HAWKINS , Í . A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa .... Troy , 1797 . HOUSTOUN , J. Some new and accurate observations ... containing a true and impartial account ... of the coast of Guinea .... London , 1725 .
HAWKINS , Í . A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa .... Troy , 1797 . HOUSTOUN , J. Some new and accurate observations ... containing a true and impartial account ... of the coast of Guinea .... London , 1725 .
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 9 |
ENGLAND AND THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC | 22 |
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