The importance of effectually supporting the Royal African Company of England impartially consider'd [electronic resource] : shewing, that a free and open trade to Africa and the support and preservation of the British colonies and plantations in America depend upon maintaining the forts and settlements, rights and privileges belonging to that corporation against the encroachments of the French and all other foreign rivals in that trade / in a letter to a member of the House of Commons.

Author
Hays, deputy governor of the African Company [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
French
Published/​Created
London : Printed for M. Cooper, 1744.
Description
47 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates, 23 cm.

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  • Original is gift of Sidney Lapidus, Class of 1959, to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.: Digital content
  • Online Content (Original is gift of Sidney Lapidus, Class of 1959, to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.)

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  • Attributed to Hays, deputy governor of the African Company, by NUC pre-1956. Malachy Postlethwayt claimed authorship--cf. Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. and Hanson.
  • "With a map shewing the situation of the several European forts and settlements in that country."
  • Digital reproduction of original privately owned by Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959. Scanned by the Princeton University Library Digital Studio during 2012-2013.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Library, 2012. Forms part of: The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution.
Half-title
  • Importance of the African Company's forts and settlements considered
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