The African trade, the great pillar and support of the British plantation trade in America shewing, that our loss, by being beat out of all the foreign markets for sugar and indigo by the French, has been owing to the neglect of our African trade ... that the support and security of the Negroe-trade depends wholly on the due and effectual support of the Royal African Company of England ... in a letter to the Right Honourable ************ - Postlethwayt, Malachy 1707?-1767 (Printed for J. Robinson, 1745)
Attributed to Malachy Postlethwayt in NUC pre-1956 and Halkett & Laing. - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08158. - Hanson, 5903. - OCLC, 23084708. - Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. - Signed: A British merchant