<span>The prime purpose was to enhance the power of the monarchy, and of
the Roman Catholic Church in Spain, by requiring that Catholics
were loyal to the faith. As a political program, it led to
confiscations and the torture of alleged heretics, and eventually
to the expulsion of non-Catholics from Spain.
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In the book he wrote, Equiano displayed his belief that free blacks often suffered worse conditions than slaves. In the W<span>est Indies, he met a free black </span>man<span> whose name was Joseph </span>Clipson<span>. </span>Clipson's<span> story was the basis of his realization. </span>Clipson<span> had freedom but was aggressively spoken to by a Bermuda captain who insisted that </span>Clipson<span> was a slave and that he had to take him to Jamaica. </span>Clipson protested but he was ignored and was forced to go aboard the captain's ship. Equiano wrote on his book that he had thought only slavery was dreadful, but the condition of a free negro was just as equally so. Their freedom was minimal and they lived in fear of constant abuses. There were no courts to listen to them and no law would protect their properties. When Equiano became a free black, he also encountered the same situation. Free blacks lived in an uncertain middle ground between slavery and freedom.<span> </span>
Agriculture and textile factories impacted the economic development of South Carolina in several ways:
i) The textile industries and factories that had emerged before the civil war became very important in the history of South Carolina. There was a ready supply of raw materials, and change of attitude towards the development of industry which led to the growth of textile industries in South Carolina.
ii) The emergence and growth of agricultural and textile industries led to urban development and the rise of the population through migrant migration and a natural increase due to increased food production.
iii) growing of rice led to most of South Carolina's economic success through the rise of rice milling factories that utilized water power drive pestles.
iv) During the civil war, the textile and agricultural factories industry operated to capacity supplying uniforms and weapons leading to revenue growth and economic development.
