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Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 3 June 1787

By Admms |

Taylor continued to rail against British trade policy throughout the 1780s. He criticised the 1786 Anglo-French commercial treaty, which liberalised aspects of trade between the two nations, and continued to complain about the difficulty of obtaining plantation supplies and about other perceived shortcomings of the post 1783 Atlantic commercial regime. […] I sincerely hope the […]

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