...of Lexington, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the Colonies, replied: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. ' ' I say, then, that down to the very moment when our independence was won, slavery, by the statute...

...of Lexington, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the Colonies, replied: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. ' ' I say, then, that down to the very moment when our independence was won, slavery, by the statute...

...late as 1775 the Earl of Dartmouth, in answer to a remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, said: «We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And so popular was this traffic that slaves were openly sold in the public squares of London. Thus...

...hibited or restricted. 1 Lord Dartmouth, one of the CHAP. T • <• i •, i •, vm we could not allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation ; 2 and, in the hundred years which preceded 1766, English and colonial ships carried to the West Indies...

...negroes into the* same." The bill was strenuously opposed. Said the Earl of Dartmouth: "We can not r allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." A tract entitled The African Slave Trade, the Pillar and Support of the British Plantation Trade in...

...of Lexington, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the Colonies, replied: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. ' ' I say, then, that down to the very moment when our independence was won, slavery, by the statute...

...protested against them. The Secretary of State at that period when receiving these petitions declared, " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The vicissitudes of fortune are curiously evident in a study of Jamaica's social conditions, past and...

...in the official declaration of the Earl of Dartmouth in 1775, that "the Colonies must not be allowed to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." revenue only, and the Virginia act of 1752 notices in its preamble that the duty had been found "no...

...the British Colonial Secretary said, in answer to a remonstrance from the agent of the colonies : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." 2 1849 not surprised, therefore, to find as one of the counts of Jefferson's indictment of the British...

...restriction, says the historian, and the Earl of Dartmouth (president of the board of trade) declared : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." That same year, also, 1775, the Assembly of Jamaica petitioned his Majesty in favor of the Americans,...