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Slaves - West Indies, British - Social conditions

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    Letters to a young planter; or, Observations on the management of a sugar-plantation : to which is added, the planter's kalendar / written on the island of Grenada, by an old planter ...

    Turnbull, Gordon | Date: 1785
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    Observations, occasioned by the attempts made in England to effect the abolition of the slave trade : shewing the manner in which Negroes are treated in the British colonies, in the West-Indies; and, also, some particular remarks on a letter addressed to the treasurer of the society for effecting such abolition, from the Rev. Mr. Robert Boucher Nicholls, Dean of Middleham.

    Gilbert Francklyn | Date: 1788
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    Observations on the project for abolishing the slave trade : and on the reasonableness of attempting some practicable mode of relieving the Negroes.

    Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821. | Date: 1790

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