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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 118 118 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 52 52 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 50 50 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 15 15 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 11 11 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 11 11 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 7 7 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. 5 5 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906 4 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 4 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
nnually made from Great Britain to Africa. " At last, the popular complaints completely prevailed in the passage of an act, under George II., throwing open the trade, and declaring "the slave trade to be very advantageous to Great Britain, and necessary for supplying the plantations and colonies thereunto belonging with a sufficient number of negroes at reasonable rates." In the meantime, the colonies sought in vain, by petition, by remonstrance, by legislation, to diminish the evil. In 1760, an act was passed by South Carolina prohibiting the farther importation of African slaves. The act was not only rejected by the British Crown, but the governor was reprimanded, and a circular was sent to all the governors of all the colonies, warning them against presuming to countenance such legislation. News reaching Great Britain in 1765 that a similar bill had been twice read in the Assembly of Jamaica, instructions were sent to the governor of that colony, in conformity with which