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A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica: : with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, ... also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1790.
Call number: 406712
Creator: Beckford, William (-1799)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica: : with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, ... also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves

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