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Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 11 June 1782

By Admms |

In 1782, Taylor began to speculate about the prospects of the British sugar islands now that peace was to be secured with America. He recognised that the main competition to the sugar produced in the British West Indies came from the cheaper (and better) sugar produced by the French in their colonies, the largest of […]

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