They held Political Prisoners.
The 13th colonies were afraid the British Navy were surrounding them.
Abolitionists
The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The first leaders of the campaign, which took place from about 1830 to 1870, mimicked some of the same tactics British abolitionists had used to end slavery in Great Britain in the 1830s
C. Benjamin Franklin's practical inventions designed to make life safer and easier please mark me as the brainlyest answer if I'm correct