America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected with the Present Social, Political, Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial State of the Country, Its Laws and Customs, Together with a Review of the Policy of the United States that Led to the War of 1812, and Peace of 1814--the "right of Search," the Texas and Oregon Questions, Etc. Etc, Volume 2 |
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... ports of the Republic , and that so late as the year 1807 , no less than fifty - nine vessels , engaged in this brutalizing traffic , were alone sent out from the little state of Rhode Island ; at that time scarcely numbering a ...
... ports of the Republic , and that so late as the year 1807 , no less than fifty - nine vessels , engaged in this brutalizing traffic , were alone sent out from the little state of Rhode Island ; at that time scarcely numbering a ...
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... port ( Washington ) , or the port of Alexandria , in the vicinity , for some one of the southern states ; where they are consigned to unremitting labour and an early and premature grave . It is told by Dr. Torry , in his published ...
... port ( Washington ) , or the port of Alexandria , in the vicinity , for some one of the southern states ; where they are consigned to unremitting labour and an early and premature grave . It is told by Dr. Torry , in his published ...
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... port ; as also , to exact from Great Britain , that such slaves as might perchance escape into her Canadian , and other colonial possessions , should be summarily given up , or else their citizens fully in- demnified for the loss , by ...
... port ; as also , to exact from Great Britain , that such slaves as might perchance escape into her Canadian , and other colonial possessions , should be summarily given up , or else their citizens fully in- demnified for the loss , by ...
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... ports of the Bahama islands . But the right , since then , has been disavowed by the British minister , espe- cially on a very late occasion , and on a demand being made by the United States , on account of an American vessel with ...
... ports of the Bahama islands . But the right , since then , has been disavowed by the British minister , espe- cially on a very late occasion , and on a demand being made by the United States , on account of an American vessel with ...
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... port of the Bermudas , while on a lawful voyage from an American port , is embraced within the principle laid down in these resolutions , and that the detention of the Negroes on board that vessel , and their subsequent liberation ...
... port of the Bermudas , while on a lawful voyage from an American port , is embraced within the principle laid down in these resolutions , and that the detention of the Negroes on board that vessel , and their subsequent liberation ...
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