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Unit 3
Grades 9-10
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The 1739-1740 Treaties: Freedom With a Price

By the late 1730s, with British military campaigns having repeatedly failed and colonial finances strained by decades of unsuccessful suppression efforts, Jamaica's governor, Edward Trelawny, chose negotiation over continued warfare, sending Colonel John Guthrie to seek terms…

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