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A supplement to the Detection of the state and situation of the present sugar planters of Barbadoes and the Leeward-Islands: Shewing, among other New Matters, That the surest Way for England to command the Sugar-Market Abroad, is to contract rather than inlarge her Sugar Colonies. In a letter from an inhabitant of one of His Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands, to a Member of the House of Commons in England. To which is added, A letter from a traveller in the Caribbees to his friend in London.
Robertson, Robert, 1681 or 1682-Date: 1733- Books
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The interest of Great Britain, respecting the French war. By William Fox. Author of an Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Abstaining from West-India Sugar and Rum.
Fox, William, active 1791-1813.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Considerations relating to the laying any additional duty on sugar from the British plantations. Wherein is shewn, that such duty will be injurious to the commerce and navigation of this kingdom, ruinous to our Sugar Colonies, beneficial to those of France, and insufficient for the Purposes intended.
Date: 1747- Books
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A second address to the people of Great Britain: containing a new, and most powerful argument to abstain from the use of West India Sugar. By an eye witness to the facts related. Published in Behalf of a good Cause.
Burn, Andrew, 1742-1814.Date: [1792]- Books
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Just pulished, in one volume, octavo, (Price four Shillings in Boards) an essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves in the British Sugar Colonies. By the Rev. James Ramsay, M.A. vicar of Teston, in Kent.
Phillips, James, (Bookseller)Date: [1784]- Books
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A short answer to an elaborate pamphlet, entitled, The Importance of the sugar plantations, &c. Compos'd of many Words, much Malice, very little Argument, and abundance of False Reasoning. Shewing, That the Bill now depending for Prohibiting the Commerce carried on between our Northern Colonies, and the Foreign Sugar Plantations, tends to the impoverishing and ruin of those Colonies; the weakening of the Power of the English Empire in those Parts; and the Damage and Loss of Great Britain; and would put it in the power of our Sugar Plantations to make us pay them what Price they please for their Sugars. In a letter to a noble peer.
Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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The art of confectionary. Shewing the various methods of preserving all sorts of fruits, dry and liquid; viz. Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Golden Pippins, Wardens, Apricots Green, Almonds, Goosberries, Cherries, Currants, Plumbs, Rasprerries, Peaches, Walnuts, Nectarines, Figs, Grapes, &c. Flowers and Herbs; As Violets, Angelica, Orange Flowers, &c. also how to make all Sorts of Biscakes, Maspins, Sugar-Works, and Candies. With the best Methods of Clarifying, and the different Ways of Boiling Sugar. By the late ingenious Mr. Edward Lambert, Confectioner, in Pall-Mall.
Lambert, Edward.Date: [1761]- Books
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A brief account of a new invention, for which has been obtained his Majesty's royal letters patent. It consists of a peculiar method of constructing and setting Boilers, of any dimensions, in Fire-Engines, Salt-Works, Brew-Houses, Distilleries, Sugar-Houses, and Sugar-Works; and also in Allum, Coperas, Roman-Vitriol, and Saltpetre-Works, in such a well-contrived method, that more than the half part of coals and fuel is saved, and yet obtained ... quicker and larger dispatch of business in every respect. Published by the patentee, Christopher Chrysel.
Chrysel, Christoph.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Reasons grounded on facts. Shewing, I. That a new duty on sugar must fall on the planter. II. That the liberty of a direct exportation to foreign markets will not help him in this case. III. That a new Duty will not certainly increase the Revenue. And, IV. That it will probably occasion the Desertion of our Sugar Islands.
Date: M,DCC,XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Concise observations on the nature of our common food, so far as it tends to promote or injure health; With Remarks on Water, Bread, Meat, Cheese, Butter, Milk, Wine, Punch, Beer, Coffee, Tea, Sugar, &c. &c. By a gentleman of the faculty.
Gentleman of the Faculty.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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In Black-Fryers, next door to the Sugar-loaf at the upper end of the Pav'd alley from Bridewell stairs, at Mr. Segraves : There is a gentlewoman who desiring not to keep hidden those things which it hath please God through her indeavours.
Date: [1685]- Books
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Abstract of the evidence, contained in the report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, relative to the slave-trade, and the treatment of the slaves in the Sugar Islands: also an abridgement of such of the colonial laws, as relate to the treatment of the slaves.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A familiar exposition of the church-catechism, in five parts. I. Of the baptismal covenant. II. Of the crced. III. Of the commandments. IV. Of the Lord's prayer. V. Of the sacraments. To which are added prayers, for the use of children and servants. By Isaac Mann, D.D. archdeacon of Dublin, now lord bishop of Cork and Ross.
Mann, Isaac, 1711 or 1712-1788.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Considerations upon the act of Parliament, whereby a duty is laid of six pence sterling per gallon on molasses, and five shillings per hundred on sugar of foreign growth, imported into any of the British colonies. Shewing, some of the many inconveniencies necessarily resulting from the operation of the said act, not only to those colonies, but also to the British Sugar-Islands, and finally to Great-Britain.
Date: M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]- Books
Many rivers to cross : Caribbean people in the NHS, 1948-69 / author, Ann Kramer ; interviews, Abigail Bernard.
Kramer, AnnDate: 2006- Books
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Strictures and occasional observations upon the system of British commerce with the East Indies: with remarks And Proposed Regulations, For encouraging the importation of sugar from Bengal; And Hints For AN Arrangement Of The Trade, After IT Shall BE Separated From The Revenue, Of Our Territorial Acquisitions. To Which IS Added, A Succinct History Of The Sugar Trade In General, By the author of "A short review of the trade of the East India Company."
Prinsep, John, 1746-1830.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A vindication of a pamphlet lately published, intituled The tryal of the spirits. Together with some observations relating to the West-India trade, and the Encouragement of our Sugar Colonies abroad, and our useful Manufactures at home. Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. By Adam Holden, of Greéwich.
Holden, Adam.Date: 1736- Books
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A short treatise on the unfair purchase of the slaves, and their barbarous usage from Africa to the West Indies. Their cruel Treatment in the West Indies. That the slave trade is a disgrace to rational humanity, but more especially to Christianity. That the trade is abolishable only by an Act of Parliament: and As the House of Commons have agreed, it is hoped the House of Lords will concur as soon as Opportunity suits. - To discipline the Slaves to do their Work with little or no Flogging. - That Sugar is dear only from the Greatness of the Consumption; and that if we would have Sugar more cheap and plentiful, the new Plantations in Africa must be properly encouraged.
Date: 1794- Books
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The ploughman's thoughts of divinity. In six parts. I. Respecting the being of a God, and trinity of persons. II. The creation and fall of Adam, as covenant-head of all his posterity. III. The weakness of the law, and sacrifices for their recovery. IV. The covenant of grace. V. Christ's coming in the flesh, and satisfaction for sin. VI. His refurrection, ascension, intercession, coming to judgment, and returning with his saints back to heaven. By Samuel Turner.
Turner, Samuel, active 1792.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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The gentle shepherd: A Scots pastoral comedy. With new songs. By Allen Ramsay.
Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The gentle shepherd; A Scots pastoral comedy. With new songs. By Allen Ramsay.
Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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An account of the sugar maple-tree, of the United States, and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it, together with observations Upon The Advantages Both Public And Private Of This Sugar, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Secretary of State of the United States, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the American Philosophical Society. Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19th of August, 1791, and extracted from the Third Volume of their Transactions now in the Press. By Benjamin Rush, M. D. Professor of the Institutes and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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An essay on the draught of fire in furnaces, flues, and chimnies, and of the true causes, process, and effects thereof: Being an Intent to explain the Fundaments of the brief Account of a New Invention: For which has been obtained his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. It consists of a peculiar method of constructing, and setting Boilers of any dimension in Fire-Engines, Salt-Works, Brewhouses, Distilleries, Sugar-Houses, and Sugar-Works abroad; and also in Allum, Copperas, Roman-Vitriol, Saltpetre-Works and Refineries thereof; in such a well contrived manner, that more than the half-part of coals and fuel may be saved, and yet a quicker and larger dispatch of business in every respect obtained. With some Remarks about common Salt and its Use. Published by the patentee, Christopher Chrysel.
Chrysel, Christoph.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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East-India sugar. Papers respecting the culture and manufacture of sugar in British India: also notices of the cultivation of sugar in other parts of Asia. With miscellaneous information respecting sugar.
East India Company.Date: 1822- Videos
The truth about sugar.
Date: 2015