...slave-owner; Lord Dartmouth, one of the most religious statesmen of the century, declared that we could not allow the Colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation ; and Newton, the evangelist, who was at one time the captain of a slave ship, said that he never knew sweeter...

...petitioned against them, and Lord Dartmouth, as President of the Board of Trade, declared they could not " allow the colonies to check or discourage in 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...

...late as 1775 the Earl of Dartmouth, in answer to a remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, said: "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.* ,And so popular was this traffic that slaves were openly sold in the public squares of London. Thus were...

...protests went unheeded, and as late as 1775 Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies said, "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation."17 Besides the question of population a second point respecting the "enumerated articles" now...

...Board of Trade disallowed a Jamaica Act laying an additional duty on imported slaves. They could not8 "allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." But beneficial or not, there was growing up a power, which neither King, Parliament, nor State Departments...

...1775 (after the Revolution had begun) the Earl of Dartmouth informed an agent of the colonies that ' ' we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. ' ' Thus the institution of slavery was forced upon the colonies against their will, and their repeated...

...greed of the mercantile classes of England. On the eve of the Revolution, Lord Dartmouth said England "cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." This forcing of slaves upon Virginia was one of the grievances named by Jefferson in his original draft...

...the crown of England vetoed these laws. "We cannot allow the colonies," said Lord Dartmouth in 1774, "to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." On the eve of the American Revolution there were more than half a million slaves in the colonies ;...

...the crown of England vetoed these laws. "We cannot allow the colonies," said Lord Dartmouth in 1774, "to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." On the eve of the American Revolution there were more than half a million slaves in the colonies;1...

...the colonies and the policy of England, by addressing to a colonial agent those memorable words — "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Such were the motives for keeping up this nefarious traffic for more than one hundred years — to...