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Within a year of the first settlement , tobacco was being exported and sold in English markets at a fair price , and in 1631 Sir Henry Colt was able to write that now the trade of cotton fills them all with hope .
Within a year of the first settlement , tobacco was being exported and sold in English markets at a fair price , and in 1631 Sir Henry Colt was able to write that now the trade of cotton fills them all with hope .
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At the same time every effort was made to limit the actual planting of tobacco by imposing heavy tariffs . Other factors , too , contributed to the ill - success of this industry upon the island . For not only are we told by Richard ...
At the same time every effort was made to limit the actual planting of tobacco by imposing heavy tariffs . Other factors , too , contributed to the ill - success of this industry upon the island . For not only are we told by Richard ...
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Particularly anxious were the imperial authorities in accordance with the economic theory of the time ) to prevent the direct exportation of English Colonial tobacco to foreign countries . No one realised more clearly the disadvantages ...
Particularly anxious were the imperial authorities in accordance with the economic theory of the time ) to prevent the direct exportation of English Colonial tobacco to foreign countries . No one realised more clearly the disadvantages ...
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Contents
BIBLIOGRAPHY | ix |
I ST CHRISTOPHERS NEVIS AND BARBADOS | 1 |
ii Narrative of the First Settlement of St Chris | 18 |
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| Title | Works, Volume 56 |
| Author | Hakluyt Society |
| Publisher | Kraus Reprint, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2009 |
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