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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... 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 the overseas Empire on both ...
... 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 the overseas Empire on both ...
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... trade with Africa . Within the district of the Senegal and Gambia only , the Adventurers were allowed a monopoly of the trade . Supported by royal patronage the organisa- tion of the African trade advanced rapidly . In 1618 James I ...
... trade with Africa . Within the district of the Senegal and Gambia only , the Adventurers were allowed a monopoly of the trade . Supported by royal patronage the organisa- tion of the African trade advanced rapidly . In 1618 James I ...
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... trade was conditioned by " peculiar circumstances " which needed careful attention . Among these circumstances was the difficulty of preventing the market for English goods from being ruined , when , as frequently happened in an ...
... trade was conditioned by " peculiar circumstances " which needed careful attention . Among these circumstances was the difficulty of preventing the market for English goods from being ruined , when , as frequently happened in an ...
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