JAMAICA 249 Jamaica in 1689, and the profitable privilege having been transferred to French hands was one of the grievances which provoked the great war of the Spanish succession in 1702.1 By the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 the monopoly of the Spanish slave-trade fell to Britain, and the South Sea… … 224. THE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN SPANISH TOWN In the foreground is one of the guns captured by Rodney from Count De Grasse on April 12th, 1782, in his decisive naval victory In 1732 occurred the first hint of better times for the Jamaica slaves : the Moravian missionaries settled in the island.2…
Blacks · Slavery
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