An Essay On Colonization, Particularly Applied To The Western Coast Of Africa, With Some Free Thoughts On Cultivation And Commerce: Also Brief Descriptions Of The Colonies Already Formed, Or Attempted, In Africa, Including Those Of Sierra Leona And Bulama : In Two Parts, Volume 1Selbstverl., 1794 - 196 pages |
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... cordially promoted . A paffage was granted to them in a French ship from Havre de Grace to Africa , and they carried orders to all the French 44 B French governors and agents on the coast , to give OF FIRST PART INTRODUCTION,
... cordially promoted . A paffage was granted to them in a French ship from Havre de Grace to Africa , and they carried orders to all the French 44 B French governors and agents on the coast , to give OF FIRST PART INTRODUCTION,
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... give them every kind of affiftance , which accordingly they received wherever they thought proper to land.- -Thus the author's opportunities of obfervation were uncommonly favourable , and he flatters himself he did not let them efcape ...
... give them every kind of affiftance , which accordingly they received wherever they thought proper to land.- -Thus the author's opportunities of obfervation were uncommonly favourable , and he flatters himself he did not let them efcape ...
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... give orders fatal to their subjects , and which , when fober , they would gladly retract . A defire for fpirituous liquors , however , is the failing of all uncivilized people . In particular , it has greatly thinned fome American ...
... give orders fatal to their subjects , and which , when fober , they would gladly retract . A defire for fpirituous liquors , however , is the failing of all uncivilized people . In particular , it has greatly thinned fome American ...
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... gives a horrid detail of the opera- tions of the Zeelverkoopers , ( foul - mongers ) of Holland , whose infamous trade it is to trepan men for their East In- dian settlements . By fuch means , the author affirms , that the population of ...
... gives a horrid detail of the opera- tions of the Zeelverkoopers , ( foul - mongers ) of Holland , whose infamous trade it is to trepan men for their East In- dian settlements . By fuch means , the author affirms , that the population of ...
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... give one example , of which I have been a spectator . The trees on the coast I vi- fited , being generally bent in their growth by the fea - breeze , and wanting folidity , are unfit for canoes . A tree of the proper dimenfions is ...
... give one example , of which I have been a spectator . The trees on the coast I vi- fited , being generally bent in their growth by the fea - breeze , and wanting folidity , are unfit for canoes . A tree of the proper dimenfions is ...
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Africa againſt alfo almoſt alſo Angola anſwer beſt Britiſh Bulama buſineſs CANARIES Cape Verd cauſes CHAP chiefs civilized climate coaft coaſt coloniſts colonization of Africa colony commerce commodities confiderable cotton Count cultivation diſeaſes Dutch Eaft Eaſt Engliſh eſpecially eſtabliſhment Europe European expenſe faid fame fays feems fent fettlement fettlers fhall fhips filk fimilar firſt fituation flave-trade flaves focial fociety foil fome foon France French fuch fufficient fugar fupply fupport furniſh governor himſelf houſes increaſed induſtry inhabitants intereſt iſlands itſelf Jamaica juſt labour land laſt leaſt MADAGAS Madagaſcar Madeira moſt muſt nations natives neceffary neceſſary negroes obſerved perfons plough Portugal Portugueſe preſent preſerve Privy Council's produce purpoſe raiſe reaſon reſpect ſay ſeems ſeen Senegal ſent ſeveral ſhall ſhips ſhort ſhould ſmall Sofala ſome ſpirit ſtate ſubject ſuch ſyſtem Tenerife themſelves theſe theſe iſlands thofe thoſe tion trade uſe Weft Weſt Indian Weſt Indies whoſe