...presented him with a copy of the ' Bill of Eights' adopted on October 14th, 1774, replied, ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any ' degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' Large numbers of Africans were imported into England, and, as a badge of servitude, wore a collar round...

...year of the revolution, a noble earl wrote to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Between that date, and the period of first importation, England had stolen from the coast of Africa,...

...remonstrance from the agent of the colonies on the subject of the slave trade, replied : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." In the constitution of the United States, the slavery question had been singularly accommodated. Two...

...particular to the royal African Company of England." In 1775 the Earl of Dartmouth declares "we can not allow the colonies to check, or discourage in...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Prior to 1740 England had introduced into the colonies about one hundred and thirty thousand blacks...

...to put a period to negroes being slaves." But the Earl of Dartmouth interposes his edict, "we cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." In 1645 two reputable townsmen of Boston, " sailed for Guinea to trade for negroes." But when it is...

...Islands. The British Government, by its appointed agents, declared in tones of menace that " we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And the trade continued " with unabated ferocity" until 1807. In sixteen years prior to that date, one...

...Liverpool petitioned against them, and Lord Dartmouth, as president of the board of trade, declared they could not "allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Strange to say, that very year, in Kingston, a debating club, composed largely of slaveholders, had...

...Lord Dartmouth, in 1774, immediately after the decision in the Somerset case, declared : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or " discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the " nation." A few enlightened and benevolent minds lamented such a state of affairs, but their regrets were lost...

...congress in 1776, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: "We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...

...congress in 1776, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words: "We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...