William Grant Sewell
William Grant Sewell
William Grant, born in Quebec in 1829, grandson of the jurist Jonathan Sewell (* 1766 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; † 12 November, 1839 in Quebec, Canada), was educated for the bar, but preferred journalism. In 1853 he removed to New York City and became translator and law reporter for the “Herald”, then for six years he worked for the New York “Times”, becoming one of its principal editors. Du to bad health he spent three winters in the West Indies, where he studied the results of emancipation, which he reviewed in "The Ordeal of Free Labor in the West Indies" (New York, 1861). William Grant Sewell died in Quebec, on 8 August, 1862.
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The Ordeal Of Free Labor In The British West Indies
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Dragon's Backbone
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The ordeal of free labor in the British West Indies
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The Ordeal of Free Labor in the British West Indies
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The ordeal of free labor in the British West Indies
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