The main benefit of slavery to governments in the colonies is that it provided a system of almost entirely free labor, since the slaves were not compensated for their work, which took place primarily in fields. <span />
We don’t have a lot of history from the natives that were here before the spanish french and english immigrated to the america’s
<span>Although most of the settlers were Protestants, Maryland soon became one of the few regions in the British Empire where Catholics held the highest positions of political authority. Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was one of the first laws that explicitly dictated religious tolerance, though toleration was limited to Trinitarian Christians. </span><span>
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