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A48741 The groans of the plantations, or, A true account of their grievous and extreme sufferings by the heavy impositions upon sugar and other hardships relating more particularly to the island of Barbados. Littleton, Edward, b. 1626. 1689 (1689) Wing L2577; ESTC R36481 26,906 38

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