A Treatise Upon the Trade from Great-Britain to Africa: Humbly Recommended to the Attention of Government. By an African MerchantR. Baldwin, 1772 - 124 pages |
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... subjects , they therefore furely cannot claim being included ; as , in that cafe , they would enjoy rights fuperior to thofe of any natural born British subject . There does not at prefent , in any one country of the world , exift a law ...
... subjects , they therefore furely cannot claim being included ; as , in that cafe , they would enjoy rights fuperior to thofe of any natural born British subject . There does not at prefent , in any one country of the world , exift a law ...
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... subject , as well as interesting to future adventurers , to infert a brief account of the trade in general , and particularly of those royal African companies , which broke one after the other , and the manage- ment of their affairs was ...
... subject , as well as interesting to future adventurers , to infert a brief account of the trade in general , and particularly of those royal African companies , which broke one after the other , and the manage- ment of their affairs was ...
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... subjects . The English company had fustained many loffes from the French and Dutch encroach- ments , and in 1695 their fort in the river Gambia was taken by the French , who after the peace claimed an equal right in that river with the ...
... subjects . The English company had fustained many loffes from the French and Dutch encroach- ments , and in 1695 their fort in the river Gambia was taken by the French , who after the peace claimed an equal right in that river with the ...
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... subjects trading to or from Africa be- " tween Cape Blanco and the Cape of Good Hope , should " for ever thereafter be a body corporate and politic , by the name of The Company of Merchants trading to Africa ; " and that any of his ...
... subjects trading to or from Africa be- " tween Cape Blanco and the Cape of Good Hope , should " for ever thereafter be a body corporate and politic , by the name of The Company of Merchants trading to Africa ; " and that any of his ...
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... subject and the natives of Af- rica , or apprehenfion of an enemy , for any reasonable time that he shall defire ... subjects of Great Britain , fhall be difmiffed from the service of the faid company , and if a commiffioned officer ...
... subject and the natives of Af- rica , or apprehenfion of an enemy , for any reasonable time that he shall defire ... subjects of Great Britain , fhall be difmiffed from the service of the faid company , and if a commiffioned officer ...
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abuſes Accra act of parliament affert affiftance African trade againſt alfo alſo Annamaboe anſwer Appolonia authority aforefaid Briſtol Britiſh cafe Cape Coaſt Cape Lopez Captain Captain Darling cauſe chief Coaft colonies committee committee-men committee's fervants confequently confiderable Cooma Ditto Dutch enacted England Engliſh eſtabliſhed expence faid company fame fecurity fend fent fervants ferve fervice fettle fettlements fhall fhillings fhips fhould fince firſt flavery flaves foldiers fome foon forts freemen fterling fubjects fuch fufficient fupply fupport furniſh gentlemen Gold Coaſt governor of Cape greateſt himſelf houſe hundred intereft juftice laft laſt laws leaſt Liverpool London Majeſty's maſter merchants Mill moſt muſt natives neceffary neceffity negroes notwithſtanding perfons pleaſe poffibly Portugueze prefent private traders purchaſed purpoſe reaſonable refpectable river river Gambia Royal African company ſaid ſeveral ſhall ſhip ſlaves ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand trading to Africa uſe veffels Weft whatſoever Winnebah
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Page 7 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
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