 | Roy Macgregor Grier, Francis Aidan Hibbert - 1908 - 450 páginas
...Dartmouth, the Secretary of State and one of the leaders of religious thought in England, declared that " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." But in the Northern Colonies of America there was a rising spirit of dis(Fieiden 340.) like to it,... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1908 - 356 páginas
...slave-owner; Lord Dartmouth, one of the most religious statesmen of the century, declared that we could not allow the Colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation ; and Newton, the evangelist, who was at one time the captain of a slave ship, said that he never knew... | |
 | William James Gardner - 1909 - 556 páginas
...petitioned against them, and Lord Dartmouth, as President of the Board of Trade, declared they could not " allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Strange to say, that very year, in Kingston, a debating club, composed largely of slaveholders, had... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 884 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1913 - 666 páginas
...protests went unheeded, and as late as 1775 Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies said, "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation."17 Besides the question of population a second point respecting the "enumerated articles" now... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1913 - 604 páginas
...Board of Trade disallowed a Jamaica Act laying an additional duty on imported slaves. They could not8 "allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." But beneficial or not, there was growing up a power, which neither King, Parliament, nor State Departments... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 590 páginas
...1775 (after the Revolution had begun) the Earl of Dartmouth informed an agent of the colonies that ' ' we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. ' ' Thus the institution of slavery was forced upon the colonies against their will, and their repeated... | |
 | Oren F. Morton - 1920 - 618 páginas
...greed of the mercantile classes of England. On the eve of the Revolution, Lord Dartmouth said England "cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." This forcing of slaves upon Virginia was one of the grievances named by Jefferson in his original draft... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1922 - 696 páginas
...the crown of England vetoed these laws. "We cannot allow the colonies," said Lord Dartmouth in 1774, "to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." On the eve of the American Revolution there were more than half a million slaves in the colonies ;... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 páginas
...the crown of England vetoed these laws. "We cannot allow the colonies," said Lord Dartmouth in 1774, "to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." On the eve of the American Revolution there were more than half a million slaves in the colonies;1... | |
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We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. 
