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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
it were, ushered in by the royal instruction of Queen Anne to the 1702 governor of New York and New Jersey, to give due encouragement to merchants, and in particular to the royal African company of England. That a similar instruction was given generally, is evident from the apology of Spotswood for the small importations of slaves into Virginia. In that commonwealth, the planters beheld with dismay the increase of negroes. A tax checks their importation; and, in 1726, 1726. May 12. Hugh Drysdale, the deputy-governor, announces to the house that the interfering interest of the African company has obtained the repeal of that law. Long afterwards, a statesman of Virginia, in full view of the course of colonial legislation and English counteracting authority, unbiased by hostility to England, bore true testimony that the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop Madisor Papers, III. 1390 to this infernal traffic. On whatever ground Virginia oppo