The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Том 2John Stockdale, 1807 - 616 страници |
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... clearly proved to have been concerned in the murders com- mitted at Ballard's Valley , one was condemned to be burnt , and the other two to be hung up alive in irons , and left to perish in that dread- ful ful situation . III . The ...
... clearly proved to have been concerned in the murders com- mitted at Ballard's Valley , one was condemned to be burnt , and the other two to be hung up alive in irons , and left to perish in that dread- ful ful situation . III . The ...
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... - disposed Negroes , nearly of the same age , the cne an African , the other a native , no great difference ( if any ) would be made . A child just born is valued at 54 . crop- V. crop - time , to clear , hole and 156 HISTORY OF THE.
... - disposed Negroes , nearly of the same age , the cne an African , the other a native , no great difference ( if any ) would be made . A child just born is valued at 54 . crop- V. crop - time , to clear , hole and 156 HISTORY OF THE.
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... clear profit per hogshead of the sugar , which therefore is the average value of the la- bour of each Negro , old and young ; and one - third only of the Negroes being able people , their labour may be put at 201. a head ; out of which ...
... clear profit per hogshead of the sugar , which therefore is the average value of the la- bour of each Negro , old and young ; and one - third only of the Negroes being able people , their labour may be put at 201. a head ; out of which ...
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... clear gain to himself . Make the interest of the master and the slave go hand in hand . Now I think that small wages , subject to stoppage for delinquency , would have this effect . Such a system would be laying a founda- tion on which ...
... clear gain to himself . Make the interest of the master and the slave go hand in hand . Now I think that small wages , subject to stoppage for delinquency , would have this effect . Such a system would be laying a founda- tion on which ...
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... clearly mistaken ; it appear- ing by the testimony of Peter Martyr , in the third Book of his first Decad , written during Colombus's second expedition , which began in 1493 , and ended in 1495 , that the sugar - cane was , at that ...
... clearly mistaken ; it appear- ing by the testimony of Peter Martyr , in the third Book of his first Decad , written during Colombus's second expedition , which began in 1493 , and ended in 1495 , that the sugar - cane was , at that ...
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Страница 525 - States only, it being expressly agreed and declared, that during the continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying any molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa or cotton in American vessels, either from his Majesty's islands, or from the United States to any part of the world except the United States, reasonable sea-stores excepted.
Страница 8 - ... those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Страница 441 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Страница 448 - English woollen and other manufactures and commodities, rendering the navigation to and from the same more safe and cheap, and making this kingdom a staple, not only of the commodities of those plantations, but also of the commodities of other countries and places, for the supplying of them; and it being the usage of other nations to keep their plantations trade to themselves.
Страница 493 - America, it must be a considerable time before any convention or treaty for establishing and regulating the trade and intercourse between Great Britain and the said United States of America, upon a permanent foundation can be concluded...
Страница 566 - ... alone ; and by the third, to bring them to her in a raw or unmanufactured state, that her own manufacturers might secure to themselves all the advantages arising from their further improvement This latter principle was carried so far in the colonial system of...
Страница 525 - American vessels shall be subject there to no other or higher tonnage duties or charges than shall be payable by British vessels in the ports of the United States ; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels shall be subject...
Страница 453 - Rosea in the island of Dominica, and in the port of Nassau in the island of New Providence, one of the Bahama islands, under certain regulations and restrictions...
Страница 113 - In the year 1760, when a very formidable insurrection of the Koromantyn or Gold Coast negroes broke out in the parish of St. Mary, and spread through almost every other district of the island, an old...
Страница 570 - To prohibit a great people from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and their industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.