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 445
... SLAVE TRADE 445 When the slaves had been purchased , the next concern of the Company was to despatch them to the West Indies with the greatest possible speed . Sometimes negroes were brought to the ports when there were no vessels on ...
... SLAVE TRADE 445 When the slaves had been purchased , the next concern of the Company was to despatch them to the West Indies with the greatest possible speed . Sometimes negroes were brought to the ports when there were no vessels on ...
Page 449
... 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 entered into ...
... 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 entered into ...
Page 451
... slave trade , after the Committee of the Company entered fully upon its powers , was left entirely free and open to all His Majesty's subjects , and the new Company was stringently debarred from exercising any restrictive authority what ...
... slave trade , after the Committee of the Company entered fully upon its powers , was left entirely free and open to all His Majesty's subjects , and the new Company was stringently debarred from exercising any restrictive authority what ...
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