It gave everyone a sense of security? (i don't think that's right but i mean hey sounds good)
Slavery was downright essential to mercantilism in eighteenth-century Great Britain. This was because mercantilism depended on the use of colonies to produce raw materials, particularly cash crops <span>, for the mother country. These cash crops, with sugar being by far the most important, represented a major source of revenue for Great Britain. </span>