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White slavery in the Barbary states (1853)

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 99

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93 IN THE BARBARY STATES. sels, and even vessels of war, should be restored to their owners.^ As early as 1787, a treaty of a more liberal character had been entered into with Morocco, which was confirmed in 1795,^ at the price of twenty thousand dollars ; while, by a treaty witli Spain, in 1799,… … Second, they seemed made merely to be broken. They were observed only so long as money was derived under their stipulations. Our growing commerce was ^ Article 6 ; United States Statutes at Large, vol. viii. p. 157. This treaty has two dates, August, 1797, and March, 1799. William Eaton and James…

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