The Industrial History of the U.S.Macmillan, 1907 - Всего страниц: 461 |
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Стр. 55
... freight to London was £ 3 per ton . Since wheat weighs sixty pounds per bushel and tobacco but forty pounds , the cost of transportation was much greater for wheat . In 1619 twenty thousand pounds of tobacco were exported from Virginia ...
... freight to London was £ 3 per ton . Since wheat weighs sixty pounds per bushel and tobacco but forty pounds , the cost of transportation was much greater for wheat . In 1619 twenty thousand pounds of tobacco were exported from Virginia ...
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... Freight charges were high and commissions excessive . Contem- Bradford , porary records abound in complaints of the extravagant 243 . prices paid on this account . A shipload of goods sent to BALANCE IN - FAVOR OF THE COLONIES ...
... Freight charges were high and commissions excessive . Contem- Bradford , porary records abound in complaints of the extravagant 243 . prices paid on this account . A shipload of goods sent to BALANCE IN - FAVOR OF THE COLONIES ...
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... freight boats more than a few miles above tide water . By dint of numerous carries the Charles , the Merrimac , the Penobscot , and the Housatonic were made to serve the needs of local traffic , but the Con- necticut is the only New ...
... freight boats more than a few miles above tide water . By dint of numerous carries the Charles , the Merrimac , the Penobscot , and the Housatonic were made to serve the needs of local traffic , but the Con- necticut is the only New ...
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... freight on a bushel of grain from Northampton by wagon to Windsor Locks was one shilling , from the Locks to Hartford by river scow , twopence , from Hartford to Boston by sailing vessel , sixpence . In transportation by sea , New ...
... freight on a bushel of grain from Northampton by wagon to Windsor Locks was one shilling , from the Locks to Hartford by river scow , twopence , from Hartford to Boston by sailing vessel , sixpence . In transportation by sea , New ...
Стр. 77
... freight was carried to the West Indies and traded for sugar and molasses , or to Virginia , Felt , where negroes brought a good price in tobacco . Either cargo could be disposed of to advantage on returning to the II , 289 . home port ...
... freight was carried to the West Indies and traded for sugar and molasses , or to Virginia , Felt , where negroes brought a good price in tobacco . Either cargo could be disposed of to advantage on returning to the II , 289 . home port ...
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Стр. 119 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Стр. 83 - An Act for the better Securing and Encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America...
Стр. 119 - Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
Стр. 146 - Invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used, and praying that a patent may be granted therefor.
Стр. 96 - Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts ; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums ; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Стр. 255 - ... continue with their parents to a certain age, then be brought up, at the public expense, to tillage, arts or sciences, according to their geniusses, till the females should be eighteen, and the males twenty-one years of age, when they should be colonized to such place as the circumstances of the time should render most proper...
Стр. 129 - States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold a>nd silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
Стр. 118 - That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next, after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave-trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Стр. 256 - Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
Стр. 329 - Section 1 provides that every contract combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal.