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Cheap sugar means cheap slaves : speech of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, in the House of Lords, February 7th, 1848, against the admission of slave labour sugar on equal terms with free labour produce : with an appendix illustrative of the impetus given to the slave trade by the bill of 1846.

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Main Author:	Wilberforce, Samuel, 1805-1873
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : J. Ridgway, 1848
Edition:	2nd ed.
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Sugar trade > Great Britain. Slave trade > Great Britain. Great Britain > Commerce > West Indies, British. West Indies, British > Commerce > Great Britain. Slavery > West Indies, British. Sugar > Taxation. Electronic books.
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