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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... it's nefarious exist , ence is tolerated , will prove the grand obftacle to their im- provement and civilization . Early in the fixteenth century , this traffic had affumed an appearance of fyftem ; for we find that , in 1517 , the ...
... it's nefarious exist , ence is tolerated , will prove the grand obftacle to their im- provement and civilization . Early in the fixteenth century , this traffic had affumed an appearance of fyftem ; for we find that , in 1517 , the ...
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... it's concomitant vices . As the whites practice every fraud upon them , in the quantity and quality of the goods delivered , and in trepanning their persons , the blacks cannot carry on this trade , on equal terms , without reforting to ...
... it's concomitant vices . As the whites practice every fraud upon them , in the quantity and quality of the goods delivered , and in trepanning their persons , the blacks cannot carry on this trade , on equal terms , without reforting to ...
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... it's ufe is fuperfeded by a mere animal ha- bit . He becomes , in fhort , a kind of live machine , in the hands of fome monied man , to contribute to the pride and luxury of drones , who poffefs no other talent than that of turning to ...
... it's ufe is fuperfeded by a mere animal ha- bit . He becomes , in fhort , a kind of live machine , in the hands of fome monied man , to contribute to the pride and luxury of drones , who poffefs no other talent than that of turning to ...
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... its coaft , which present a variety of fituations , where we shall be little , or not at all , disturbed in our ... it's inexhaustible stores , and in the concomitant bleffings of im- proving reafon and progreffive civilization ...
... its coaft , which present a variety of fituations , where we shall be little , or not at all , disturbed in our ... it's inexhaustible stores , and in the concomitant bleffings of im- proving reafon and progreffive civilization ...
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... it's dryness or moisture , it's elevation or depreffion , the comparative state of improvement , the height of thermometer , and other cir- cumstances , perhaps , not yet fufficiently investigated . The latitude of a place is by no ...
... it's dryness or moisture , it's elevation or depreffion , the comparative state of improvement , the height of thermometer , and other cir- cumstances , perhaps , not yet fufficiently investigated . The latitude of a place is by no ...
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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