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The elder Robert Dallas came to
Jamaica from Scotland around 1730. His first wife was Mary Frances Main, daughter of Samuel Themer Main, a merchant of Kingston. Dr Dallas then had a long-standing affair with Sarah Hewitt, nÊe Cammack, and Robert Charles Dallas was born 14 July 1754. Sarah had
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History of the Maroons: From Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone; Including the Expedition to Cuba ... : with a Succinct History of the Island; in Two Volumes
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This work was published in a period when much public attention had been given over to the revolutionary events in Europe. The matter had previously been treated by
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previously married John Hewitt in 1751. Robert
Charles was born illegitimate, and his parents eventually married in 1769, in England, after John Hewitt's death.
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America and returned to England. He had sold the Dallas Castle estate on Jamaica by 1810. He died in autumn 1824 at
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commented that the author was cashing in on public interest in the slavery question, and had exaggerated the hardships.
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Writings, consisting of Poems; Lucretia, a Tragedy; and Moral Essays, with a Vocabulary of the Passions
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Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of law
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English court's jurisdiction, if also much changed.
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History of the Maroons from their Origin to the Establishment of their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone
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Innes M. Keighren; Charles W. J. Withers; Bill Bell (11 May 2015).
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Adrastus, a Tragedy; Amabel, or the Cornish Lovers; and other Poems
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The Marlands, Tales illustrative of the Simple and Surprising
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against the publication of the letters. Extracts from the
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388:Letter to C. Butler relative to the New Conspiracy
288:. On the grapevine (via Byron's aunt Julia Heath)
27:Jamaican-born British poet and conservative writer
370:The Knights, Tales illustrative of the Marvellous
569:https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651101
194:the surveyor and cartographer made a map of the
860:Augusta Leigh, Byron's Half Sister: A Biography
382:The New Conspiracy against the Jesuits detected
934:. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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354:(compiled and partly written by Dallas), 1802.
308:, in November 1824, but about a month behind
230:as a defence of slavery against his own book
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