The West Indies: the natural and physical history of the Windward and Leeward Colonies; with some account of the moral, social, and political condition of their inhabitants, immediately before and after the abolition of negro slavery / By Sir Andrew Halliday.

  • Halliday, Andrew, Sir, 1781-1839.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The West Indies: the natural and physical history of the Windward and Leeward Colonies; with some account of the moral, social, and political condition of their inhabitants, immediately before and after the abolition of negro slavery / By Sir Andrew Halliday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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