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A ``Dangerous Principle'' Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 16501689 CHRISTIAN J. KOOT Colgate University Between November 2 and 7, 1676, the Lords of Trade and Plantations, a royal committee formed to manage England's expanding colonial empire, invited two officials into their council chamber at Whitehall to offer their views of the effectiveness of the Navigation Acts and the wisdom of relaxing the rules for colonial trade. The occasion for this debate was a series of reports the lords had received from Governor Jonathan Atkins, of Barbados, and a petition entitled the ``Grievances of Barbados.'' These documents all called for the government to modify the Acts of Trade and Navigation by permitting colonists to export sugar and other tropical commodities to any port of their choice, English or foreign, after paying the proper duties. Allowing the free trade of exports to foreign markets, they argued, would better serve the needs of the empire's most important colony and thus the empire as a whole.1 I wish to thank the Program of Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies for financial and institutional support
Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 3, 2007
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