...truthfully expressive of what had been the whole policy of Great Britain to her American colonies : "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation."^ And here, with this history before us, it will be interesting, for one moment, to inquire into the...

...year of the Revolution, a noble earl wrote to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We can not allow the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Between that date, and the period of first importation, England had stolen from the coast of Africa,...

...effectual, while in 1775, the very year of the revolution, a noble earl wrote to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We cannot allow the Colonies to...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Between that date, and the period of first importation, England had stolen from the coast of Africa,...

...representatives " to put a period to negroes being slaves." But the Earl of Dartmouth interposes his edict, "we cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." In 1645 two reputable townsmen of Boston, " sailed for Guinea to trade for negroes." But when it is...

...particular to the royal African Company of England." In 1775 the Earl of Dartmouth declares "we can not allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Prior to 1740 England had introduced into the colonies about one hundred and thirty thousand blacks...

...India Islands. The British Government, by its appointed agents, declared in tones of menace that " we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And the trade continued " with unabated ferocity" until 1807. In sixteen years prior to that date,...

...petitioned against them, and Lord Dartmouth, as president of the board of trade, declared they could not "allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Strange to say, that very year, in Kingston, a debating club, composed largely of slaveholders, had...

...slave-trade by the American congress in 1776, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: "We cannot allow the colonies to...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...

...conspicuous leaders of the English religious world, answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to...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 by the American congress in 1776, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: "We cannot allow the colonies to...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...