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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CHAPTER XV THE ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE AND THE AFRICAN SETTLEMENTS THE English slave trade had a life of about a century and a half as an active branch of national commerce , and during this period it contributed greatly to the building of ...
CHAPTER XV THE ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE AND THE AFRICAN SETTLEMENTS THE English slave trade had a life of about a century and a half as an active branch of national commerce , and during this period it contributed greatly to the building of ...
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trading company in 1650 they had an old - established African trade , and the second , that an Atlantic slave trade had been developed by other European countries so that the pioneer work had already been done when English merchants in ...
trading company in 1650 they had an old - established African trade , and the second , that an Atlantic slave trade had been developed by other European countries so that the pioneer work had already been done when English merchants in ...
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DECKER , M. An essay on the causes of the decline of the Foreign Trade .... 2nd ed . Dublin , 1749 . Significant for its advocacy of greater freedom of trade . He remarks " if a Free - Port will gain us those Trades we are naturally ...
DECKER , M. An essay on the causes of the decline of the Foreign Trade .... 2nd ed . Dublin , 1749 . Significant for its advocacy of greater freedom of trade . He remarks " if a Free - Port will gain us those Trades we are naturally ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 9 |
ENGLAND AND THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC | 22 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1929 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2009 |
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