Importance of the African Expedition Considered:
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POSTLETHWAYT, Malachy. In Honour to the Administration. The Importance of the African Expedition Considered: with Copies of the Memorials ... To which are Added, Observations, Illustrating the Said Memorials, for the Peculiar Benefit and Advantage of all British African and West-India Merchants and British Planters. London: C. Say, 1758. 8vo. [4], xxiv, 99, [1] pp. Complete with half-title. Newly backed in morocco with marbled paper over boards. ESTC T75099. SABIN 64566. In this work Postlethwayt praises the British capture of Senegal during the Seven Years War and uses this event as place from which to explore the impact of this victory over the French in relations to North American trade. The author details the importance and the economic ramifications of the British victory over the French. Both the French and British colonies in America depended not only on the commerce from Sugar, Rum, Molasses, Tobacco, Gum, Fur, Spices, etc., but also from the African slave trade and the slaves who worked the plantations and indirectly paid for North American expansion. A thorough and interesting argument. A contemporary reviewer remarks, "The memorial is illustrated by observations well worth the perusal of our ministry and merchants.... In a word, we have in this commentary, a distinct detail of all the branches of commerce, that are, or may be carried on in the different parts of Africa." (CRITICAL REVIEW, September 1758). Of additional note, the work includes a detailed description of the Senegal region, including a lengthy account of the gold mines. Scarce with no sale at auction recorded. OCLC locates 14 copies in institutional holdings.
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