SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF OUR WEST INDIA COLONIES, AND ON THE REGULATIONS WHICH INFLUENCE THEIR INDUSTRY AND TRADE. BY A WEST INDIAN PROPRIETOR

  • London: James Ridgeway, Piccadilly [Shackell & Baylis], 1830
By West Indian Proprietor, A.
London: James Ridgeway, Piccadilly [Shackell & Baylis], 1830. [1-title], [1], 29, [1 blank] pp, disbound. Some repaired tears at fore-edge of title page [no text loss]. Perforated library stamp in blank margin of title page, two rubberstamps. Red ink underlines throughout text. Inscribed at head of title, "Wm. Smith Esq. with Wm. K. Douglas' complts." Good.

"The foreign sugar-growing areas were enjoying the benefits of the slave trade and were sending increasing quantities of produce to the general European market. The British planters could no longer compete with them there-- their inability to recruit labor stocks and restrictions on their trade hampered them too greatly." Ragatz.
Ragatz 271.

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Title

SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF OUR WEST INDIA COLONIES, AND ON THE REGULATIONS WHICH INFLUENCE THEIR INDUSTRY AND TRADE. BY A WEST INDIAN PROPRIETOR

Author

West Indian Proprietor, A.

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

James Ridgeway, Piccadilly [Shackell & Baylis]: London

Date

1830


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