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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Page 244
... Leeward Islands showed the same general conditions as Barbados and were more handicapped by the disablement of war . On the other hand they had the good fortune to be ruled for fourteen years by one of the best of the old colonial ...
... Leeward Islands showed the same general conditions as Barbados and were more handicapped by the disablement of war . On the other hand they had the good fortune to be ruled for fourteen years by one of the best of the old colonial ...
Page 380
... Leeward Islands provided , under penalty of a fine , that each planter must keep white servants in fixed proportion to his negroes or acreage.2 But planters preferred to pay the fine , for negro labour for sugar planting was both ...
... Leeward Islands provided , under penalty of a fine , that each planter must keep white servants in fixed proportion to his negroes or acreage.2 But planters preferred to pay the fine , for negro labour for sugar planting was both ...
Page 405
... Leeward Islands , Massachusetts Bay , and New York - the only other colonies that came into the hands of the Crown in the seventeenth century - the case was somewhat different . Jamaica was a conquered province , the Leeward Islands ...
... Leeward Islands , Massachusetts Bay , and New York - the only other colonies that came into the hands of the Crown in the seventeenth century - the case was somewhat different . Jamaica was a conquered province , the Leeward Islands ...
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