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... need not be denied : but that these have been much exaggerated by prejudice and con- tempt , and still more by policy and party spirit , is no less certain . 19 While the Aborigines of the West Indies were sinking 18.
... need not be denied : but that these have been much exaggerated by prejudice and con- tempt , and still more by policy and party spirit , is no less certain . 19 While the Aborigines of the West Indies were sinking 18.
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Africa Institution, London. 19 While the Aborigines of the West Indies were sinking under the oppression of the ... Indians , were at length accused at the bar of their country ; and recrimination was the expedient to which some of them ...
Africa Institution, London. 19 While the Aborigines of the West Indies were sinking under the oppression of the ... Indians , were at length accused at the bar of their country ; and recrimination was the expedient to which some of them ...
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Africa Institution, London. Indians , further difficulties should be raised on the ground of the supposed indolence and ... West Indies do not often work in husbandry or other coarse kinds of labour , because such occupations , being the ...
Africa Institution, London. Indians , further difficulties should be raised on the ground of the supposed indolence and ... West Indies do not often work in husbandry or other coarse kinds of labour , because such occupations , being the ...
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... West Indies , might easily be naturalized and brought to the utmost per- fection in the tropical parts of this immense continent . Nothing is wanting to this end but example to enlighten the minds of the natives ; and instruction to ...
... West Indies , might easily be naturalized and brought to the utmost per- fection in the tropical parts of this immense continent . Nothing is wanting to this end but example to enlighten the minds of the natives ; and instruction to ...
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... notwithstanding what it has failed to accom- plish . It has shewn that not only provisions , but the various articles of export which we now bring from the West Indies , may be raised on the African coast . It has demon- strated 50.
... notwithstanding what it has failed to accom- plish . It has shewn that not only provisions , but the various articles of export which we now bring from the West Indies , may be raised on the African coast . It has demon- strated 50.
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Abolition Act of Parliament aforesaid Africa African Institution African Slave Trade America appear Appendix bounties British captors cargo carried chief civilization Coast of Africa Collector colony Committee condemned considerable Cotton Court cultivation Directors ditto Duke of Gloucester duty Earl effect employed export extend fibres flogged foreign forfeited forfeitures Governor Huggins hundred important improvement inhabitants island John justice labour lashes Liverpool Majesty Majesty's Government Mandingo master means Memorialist ment natives of Africa negroes object offence officer Palm Oil Parliament penalties persons resident plants port Portuguese pounds sterling present prize procure produce prohibited prosecuted punishment purpose quantity received Report respect Right Honourable Right Honourable LORD Royal Highness Sect seed seized sent settlement ship or vessel Sierra Leone Company Slave or Slaves Slave Trade Sunn taken territory Thomas tion trade in Slaves transhipped Viscount Valentia West Indies William witness
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Página 22 - SlaveTrade throughout the whole of his dominions. And actuated by this principle, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal engages that his subjects shall not be permitted to carry on the Slave Trade on any part of the Coast of Africa, not actually belonging to His Royal Highness's dominions, in which that trade has been discontinued and abandoned by the powers and states of Europe, which formerly traded there...
Página 6 - The slave trade has since been totally abolished by this country, and our legislature has pronounced it to be contrary to the principles of justice and humanity. Whatever we might think as individuals before, we could not, sitting as judges in a British court of justice, regard the trade in that light, while our own laws permitted it. But we can now assert that this trade cannot, abstractedly speaking, have a legitimate existence. When I say abstractedly speaking...
Página 14 - The principle laid down in that case appears to be, that the slave trade, carried on by a vessel belonging to a subject of the United States, is a trade which, being unprotected by the domestic regulations of their legislature and government, subjects the vessel engaged in it to a sentence of condemnation.
Página 27 - Ix'fore the determination thereof; it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ten, it shall and may be lawful, for any person or persons...
Página 27 - ... to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same...
Página 41 - Merchandize unlawfully imported into the same Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory, may now be seized and prosecuted therein by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force for regulating the Navigation and Trade of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations and shall and may, after his or their Condemnation, be disposed of in Manner herein-after mentioned and provided.
Página 51 - If any action be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this act, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence, and if...
Página 41 - Counsellors, Aiders and Abettors, shall be and are hereby declared to be Felons, and shall be transported beyond Seas for a Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, or shall be confined and kept to Hard Labour for a Term not exceeding Five Years, nor less than Three Years, at the Discretion of the Court before whom such Offender or Offenders shall be tried and convicted.
Página 51 - ... may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of...
Página 40 - ... not possible for me to behold the wonderful fertility of the soil, the vast herds of cattle, proper both for labour and food, and a variety of other circumstances favourable to colonization and agriculture ; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted and favoured by nature, should remain in its present savage and neglected state.