The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British West Indies and Bahamas: A Chapter Out of the History of the American LoyalistsOhio State University, 1913 - 50 páginas |
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... produced nothing less than consternation among the loyalists , both old inhabitants and refugees . The Assembly of Georgia remonstrated against the proposal , recommending that the territory be kept as an asy- lum for the loyalists ...
... produced nothing less than consternation among the loyalists , both old inhabitants and refugees . The Assembly of Georgia remonstrated against the proposal , recommending that the territory be kept as an asy- lum for the loyalists ...
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... produce a marked effect at once . We have already seen that a single ship was sufficient to carry those who embarked at St. Augustine near the end of June , 1783 , for Jamaica .. It may be added that two vessels sufficed for those ...
... produce a marked effect at once . We have already seen that a single ship was sufficient to carry those who embarked at St. Augustine near the end of June , 1783 , for Jamaica .. It may be added that two vessels sufficed for those ...
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... produced by her unaided efforts . They took no trouble to clear the land , but planted small patches of Guinea corn , yams , and sugar cane , which they left without futher care until the crop was ready to be gathered . It asserted that ...
... produced by her unaided efforts . They took no trouble to clear the land , but planted small patches of Guinea corn , yams , and sugar cane , which they left without futher care until the crop was ready to be gathered . It asserted that ...
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... produce.1 It is difficult to estimate the increase in population of the Bahamas due to the immigration of the loyalists . Bryan Edwards , writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century , does not attempt it , but contents himself ...
... produce.1 It is difficult to estimate the increase in population of the Bahamas due to the immigration of the loyalists . Bryan Edwards , writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century , does not attempt it , but contents himself ...
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... produce would grow very well , together with such fruits as oranges , limes , and plantains ( bananas ) , and that ... produced , and he was told that indigo could be cultivated successfully . He and his family did not find the people of ...
... produce would grow very well , together with such fruits as oranges , limes , and plantains ( bananas ) , and that ... produced , and he was told that indigo could be cultivated successfully . He and his family did not find the people of ...
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The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British West Indies and Bahamas ... Wilbur Henry Siebert Vista previa limitada - 1972 |
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Página 32 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 39 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 46 - The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head ; they have seen, in the negotiation by the executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a...
Página 31 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 22 - Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all; and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Página 32 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Página 17 - That It be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents In particular, and America In general.
Página 32 - While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.
Página 26 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.