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Title: A history of the United States in chronological order from A. D. 432 to the present time
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Jones, Frederick Thomas
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Publisher: New York, The World
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ANDREW JacKSO^-. Jlistory of the Vniied StateB. 05 1749. townships west of the Connecticut, in what is now Vermont,and Bennington and Burlington (Vt.) are settled. 1749. The population of New York Province is 62,786 whites and10,692 negroes; that of New York City is about 12,000. Indigo is widely planted in S. Carolina. Under strong ))ressure from the colonists of Georgia, thetrustees legalize slavery, subject to a condition for the instruc-tion of tlie negroes in religion. Theatrical representations are prohibited in Massachusettsand Connecticut. The partial monopoly of the African Co. in the slave trade istaken away, every obstruction is removed, and the Africanports are opened to English competition—for the slave-tradeis very advantageous to Great Britain. Lord ChancellorHardwicke, in Pearce vs. Lisle, pronounces an extra-judicialophiion confirming that of Yorke and Talbot, that a colonialslave does not become free by touching the soil of England.The opinion was afterward set asi

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