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ISBN-10: 1236645162
ISBN-13: 9781236645166
Edition: N/A
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...Many were the consequences to our fathers from these encroachments: they opened trade between our colonies and the Spanish islands; they stimulated England to aggressions which led to a war; they incensed Spain, so that she could wish to see the CxxiP' reat colonial system impaired, if by that means she could revenge herself on England. 1713. gut fg ass;ento itself was, for English America, the most weighty result of the negotiations at Utrecht. It was demanded by St. John, in… 1711: and Louis XIV. Cooke'i ' Kr," promised his good offices to procure this advantage for 'i75' the English. "Her Britannic majesty did offer and undertake,"--such are the words of that treaty, --" by persons whom she shall appoint, to bring into the West Indies of America belonging to his Catholic majesty, in the space of thirty years, one hundred and forty-four thousand negroes, at the rate of four thousand eight hundred in each of the said thirty years,"--paying, on four thousand of them, a duty of thirty-three and a third dollars a head. The assientists might introduce as many more as they pleased, at the less rate of duty of sixteen and two thirds dollars a head--only, no 1,4'?." scandal was to be offered to the Roman Catholic religion Exactest care was taken to secure a monopoly. No Frenchman, nor Spaniard, nor any other per-is. sons, might introduce one negro slave into Spanish America. For the Spanish world in the Gulf of Mexico, on the Atlantic, and along the Pacific, as well as for the English colonies, her Britannic majesty, by persons of her appointment, was the exclusive slave trader. England extorted the privilege of filling the New World with negroes. As great profits were anticipated from the trade, Philip V. of...