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WEST INDIES, BRITISH--ECONOMIC CONDITIONS,
ePostlethwayt, Malachys 1707?-1767.
The African trade, the great pillar and sup= port of the British plantation trade in Ameri- ca: shewing, that our loss, by being beat out of all the foreign markets for sugar and indigo by the French, has been owing to the neglect of our African trade ... That the support and se- curity of the Negro-trade depends wholly on the due and effectual support of the Royal African Company of England ... In a letter to the Right Honourable *#HHHHHHREHHE 44,
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