...religious world, answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' 3 It has been computed that up to the year 1740 the number of negroes who had been introduced into...

...SLAVE TRADE. 17 answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' 1 It has been computed that up to the year 1 740 the number of negroes who had .been introduced into...

...religious world, answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.'3 It has been computed that up to the year 1740 the number of negroes who had been introduced...

...abrubtly and sternly gave a quietus to these protests of the colonies, in the following words: " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." This remarkable exhibition of the unfeeling spirit of gain by which the English government was actuated...

...congress, in 1776, the earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: " We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy between Spain...

...the prosperity of the plantation. In 1676, the Earl of Dartmouth said to a colonial agent, "We cannot allow the Colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." :d Peter Stuyvepote 7<-s>:l;f l"Ik-| >]| Vi:: was president of ;~on of the slave trade, and in 17 12,...

...congress, in 1776, the earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy between Spain...

...the slave trade, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed the following words to a colonial agent : We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. During a debate in the house of commons on the question of the suppression of this trade, a wise legislator...

...Colonies, and one of the most conspicuous leaders of the English religious world," declared, " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." 1 Yet, at the very time at which an English minister could make such a declaration, the agitation had...

...sustain it, saying it was " the pillar and support of the British plantation trade in America," and that they " could not allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And so slavery continued, until, as the result of secession, freedom came to the millions who had been...