Publisher's Synopsis
Title: The importance of effectually supporting the Royal African Company of England impartially consider'd: shewing, that a free and open trade to Africa and the support and preservation of the British colonies and plantations in America depend upon maintaining the forts and settlements, rights and privileges belonging to that corporation against the encroachments of the French and all other foreign rivals in that trade.
Author: Hays, deputy governor of the African Company
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP04997500
CollectionID: CTRG04-B903
PublicationDate: 17440101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Attributed to Hays, deputy governor of the African Company, by NUC pre-1956. Malachy Postlethwayt claimed authorship--cf. Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. and Hanson. "With a map shewing the situation of the several European forts and settlements in that country."
Collation: 47 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates: fold. map
