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Grenada, Liverpool and Grenada, 23 September, 1.833~ 43 days
Edinburgh transits
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Slave content letter. from Grenada Sugar plantation (above):
Requests advancing money for importation of African laborers and offers prospects of a fine
sugar crop they will produce. Questions use of slaves on sugar cane fields for the Colonies.
ln Grenada and Jamaica plantations were successful growing both coffee and sugar.