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 that no slave could be held in England itself). In 1713, she made a treaty with Spain to supply the Spanish colonies, in thirty years, with 144,000 slaves. Now, had England been situated on the American continent or coast, would not these English ships have brought the slaves home, into their own territory, as the Cubans now do into theirs? — and thus would not England have been filled with African slaves, just as Cuba or the United States now are? Where, then, would have been the boast concerning the free English soil": We may thus see that the fact of Britain's