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He asked if it might not be late afternoon instead, because he had cargo from the Indies for sale, and in the morning certain merchants were to visit his vessel. Truth to tell he was playing a deep game. He wanted to learn the governor's plans for the next afternoon and evening, and thought to do so by proposing this same change. He did not reckon foolishly.
Cuba must be giving the island a good government for the American residents, as I have heard nothing from the island for several years. It was during the Fifty-seventh Congress that the treaty with Denmark, providing for the purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies, consisting of the Islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, came before the committee.
In the year 1628 a colonizing expedition of eleven vessels left Holland for the Dutch East Indies. Among these ships was the Batavia, commanded by Francis Pelsart.
Sumner, "Burke, Canning and Brougham, at successive periods unite in declaring, from the experience of the British West Indies, that whatever the slave-masters undertook to do for their slaves was always arrant trifling; that whatever might be its plausible form it always wanted the executive principle.
Raynal's reputation is that of a plagiarist, but his best work is attributed to far greater names of his time. He died in 1796. Reeves, pp. 430-434. Macpherson, vol. iv. p. 10. Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, vol. i. p. 485-486. Bryan Edwards, West Indies, vol. ii. p. 450. Officially, Statute of 15 Charles II. Reeves, p. 50. Chalmers, Opinions on Interesting Subjects, p. 28.
"In storms the sailors had to put on the hatches and seal tight the openings into the infernal cesspool." The terrible revolt of the slaves in the West Indies, beginning in 1781, gave the growing anti-slavery sentiment an immense impetus. It also gave the slave owners pause. The cotton-gin had not yet been invented. Slavery was on a shifty economic basis in the South.
In brief, after a careful and systematic examination of the whole field, the committee considered that British navigation had gained 111,638 tons by excluding Americans from branches of trade they had once shared, and still eagerly desired. The effects of the system were most conspicuous in the trade between the West Indies and the United States.
Lawrence Selden was among the passengers sailing this afternoon for Havana and the West Indies on the Windward Liner Antilles." She laid down the paper and sat motionless, staring at her note. She understood now that he was never coming that he had gone away because he was afraid that he might come.
This was the case, in fact, all through the West Indies, English seamen being put in the stocks, sent to the galleys, or murdered outright. It took the sturdy directness of Oliver Cromwell to put an end to these outrages. He sent word to the Spanish minister that there must be a stop put to the practices of the Inquisition and to the restriction of free navigation in the West Indies.
So much confidence had he in this man's honor, that he did not even require a receipt. One additional safeguard he had, however. This was the evidence of the lawyer's clerk, who was present on the occasion of the deposit. "My father went to the West Indies, but the change seemed only to accelerate the progress of his malady. He lingered for a few months and then died.
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