West-Indian Sugar Duties. Arguments for their continuance answered.

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A seemingly unrecorded retort to the proposed protections for West-Indian vs. East-Indian sugar, in light of the Corn Laws, American trade restrictions, and other arguments related to taxation and tariffs. The printer, Ellerton and Henderson, also put their name to Granville Sharp’s 1820 Memoirs , Wilberforce’s 1823 Appeal , various reports of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, as well as numerous other abolitionist texts. The arguments were likely posed in response to the 1823 discussions in parliament over the re-evaluation of duties applied to East and West India sugar. Sugar from the British Caribbean had benefitted significantly from favourable taxation policy negotiations and protected by the powerful West India Lobby. This advantaged the British plantocracy and served to support this sector of British trade that relied so heavily enslaved labour. As the rhetoric of the anti-slavery movement encouraged consumers to forego the purchase of West India sugar, the same commodity produced in the East Indies was offered as an alternative. The easing of import duties for this and other products of the Indian subcontinent are posited in terms of an advantageous free-market as opposed to the monopoly which served to support the struggling plantations. The tract is divided into two halves, with the first addressing ten numbered arguments against the continued protection of West-Indian imports. These touch on interestin

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