9. Prepare and study a graphic chart, sect. 586, and preserve it for comparison with later conditions.

10. The African slave trade. [Weeden, chap. 12; Abbot, chap. 3.]

11. What reasons occur to you why the Americans should have traded with England so much more than with other states of Europe?

12. History of the commerce of the colonies with the West Indies. [Pitman; Weeden or Bruce, Index, West Indies.]

13. Character of production and commerce in the West Indies at this time. [Pitman; Fiske.]

14. History of ship-building in the colonies. [Weeden, 252-267, 573-581; Wright, 23-42; Marvin, chaps. 1, 2.]

15. Pirates and privateers of the colonial period. [Weeden, chap. 9, 559-565; Abbot, chap. 5, Howard Pyle, The buccaneers.]

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See preceding chapter.

CHAPTER XLVII
COMMERCE AND POLICY, 1789-1815