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 Leone and Bulama |
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... very cordially promoted . A paffage was granted to them in a French fhip from Havre de Grace to Africa , and they carried orders to all the French B French governors and agents on the coaft , to give OF FIRST PART INTRODUCTION,
... very cordially promoted . A paffage was granted to them in a French fhip from Havre de Grace to Africa , and they carried orders to all the French B French governors and agents on the coaft , to give OF FIRST PART INTRODUCTION,
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Carl Bernhard Wadström. French governors and agents on the coaft , to give them every kind of affiftance , which accordingly they received wherever they thought proper to land .-- -Thus the author's opportunities of obfervation were ...
Carl Bernhard Wadström. French governors and agents on the coaft , to give them every kind of affiftance , which accordingly they received wherever they thought proper to land .-- -Thus the author's opportunities of obfervation were ...
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... give orders fatal to their subjects , and which , when fober , they would gladly retract . A defire for spirituous 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 spirituous liquors , however , is the failing of all uncivilized people . In particular , it has greatly thinned fome American ...
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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 sea - breeze , and wanting folidity , are unfit for canoes . A tree of the proper dimensions 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 sea - breeze , and wanting folidity , are unfit for canoes . A tree of the proper dimensions is ...
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... give them a manly and generous education , which will make them feel the nobility of their origin , and fhew them of what great things they are capable - an education which will teach them no longer to suffer themselves to be drag- ged ...
... give them a manly and generous education , which will make them feel the nobility of their origin , and fhew them of what great things they are capable - an education which will teach them no longer to suffer themselves to be drag- ged ...
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Africa againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer APPENDIX Beaver beſt Britiſh buſineſs cauſe CHAP chief civilization climate coaft coaſt coloniſts colony commerce Company's confequence confiderable cultivation defire Directors Ditto Engliſh eſpecially eſtabliſhment European expenſe faid fame feems fent fervants fervice fettlers feveral fhall fhips fhore fimilar fince firſt fituation flave-trade flaves fome foon Foulahs Freetown French fubject fuccefs fuch fufficient fugar fupply fupport governor Granville Sharp grumettas himſelf houſes increaſe Indies induſtry intereft iſland Jamaica John juſt King labour land laſt leaſt lefs Leona and Bulama Leona Company leſs meaſure Mifs moft moſt mulatto muſt natives neceffary negroes obferved perfons Portugueſe preſent propoſed provifions purchaſe purpoſe raiſed reaſon reſpecting river ſaid ſay Scotians ſee ſeems Senegal ſeveral ſhall ſhip ſhould Sierra Leona ſmall ſome ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion trade uſed veffels Weft Weſt whoſe