| Samuel Phillips Day - Confederate States of America - 1862 - 354 pages
...United Provinces. Its charter allowed the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the COMMERCIAL WARRIORS. 163 coast of America, from the straits of Magellan to the remotest north.... | |
| Hugh Thomas - History - 1997 - 916 pages
...20,000 slaves. Between 1621 and 1625, 125 ships were licensed for America, the West Indies, and West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope, again mostly (82) to start from Angola (carrying more than 17,000 slaves).6 Thus more slaves went annually... | |
| Linda Evi Merians - History - 2001 - 308 pages
...They are, however, singled out for particularly negative notice in the last paragraph of a section, "OF AFRICA, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope." The history of this continent is little known, and probably affords no materials which deserve to render... | |
| Jeffrey A. Kroessler - History - 2002 - 381 pages
...United Seven Provinces, granted the Dutch West India Company a monopoly in the Western Hemisphere and in Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope. The company was "to advance the peopling of those fruitful and unsettled parts, and do all that the... | |
| Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, Anand A. Yang - History - 2005 - 268 pages
...settlement, was originally a colony peopled from Egypt." He pointed out that those who "occupy the country [Africa] from the tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope were originally from Egypt."15 To Hamilton, Africa was a veritable Garden of Eden. With the exception... | |
| Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer - History - 2013 - 569 pages
...so, along the American coast from Newfoundland to the Straits of Magellan, along the Atlantic shores of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope, in the intermediate islands, and in all places from the Cape westward to the eastern end of New Guinea.... | |
| Chattooga County (Ga.) - 1976 - 490 pages
...of America and the West Indies from the south-end of Newfoundland to the Straits of Magellan and to the coasts and lands of Africa from the tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope. The governing body consisted of nineteen representatives, the Nineteen. The States-General contributed... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1866 - 990 pages
...the part of the Netherlands, with the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the coast of America, from the Straits of Magellan to the remotest north. Subscription to its... | |
| George Bancroft - 1837 - 492 pages
...the 3part of the Netherlands, with the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the coast of America, from the Straits of Magellan to the remotest north. Subscription to the... | |
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