Molasses Act
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molasses-act-196-705965
title:
Molasses Act
text:
The Molasses Act 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies. The Act was passed not to raise revenue but to regulate trade by making British products cheaper than those from the French West Indies. The Act greatly affected the significant colonial molasses trade. Merchants purchased raw suga
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1733 British legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses_Act
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2023-11-13T15:10:48Z
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