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| North America:The Carolina colony is divided into north and south. A slave revolt in New York takes 24 lives. Pennsylvania bans further importation of slaves. Whaling enters new era in New England. | |||||||||||
| Europe: British and Dutch forces are defeated by French troops, bringing about the Congress of Utrecht and eventual solution to the War of Spanish Succession. A French naturalist demonstrates that crawfish have the ability to grow new claws. Poetry by Alexander Pope. Rob Roy declared an outlaw in Scotland. | |||||||||||
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September 1 Antoine Crozat is given a monopoly of the Louisiana trade for a period of 15 years. At the beginning of the year 1712 there were not more than 400 people in the colony, of whom 20 were Indian slaves. Every vessel that went to France carried complaints from the governor, Bienville, that he needed more soldiers and horses to work the few plantations that had been opened and supplies. Bienville urged that those few who had prospered should be compelled to remain in the colony instead of returning to France, and asked permission to exchange his Indian slaves for West Indian Blacks at the rate of three Indians for two Africans, but to all these and many similar requests the French ministry paid no heed. So far the colony had been a great expense to the crown, and had brought no revenue in return. The king decides to try private management of the colony. |
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