Because the slaves are what worked the economy, while everyone else did nothing. Without the slaves the entire thing would collapse because slave owners would not want to work.
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The Dutch believed that they had more of a claim on new Amsterdam than the British is, they were the first one to claim the land
Back when territories between countries still hadn't been settled, the one that first settle a territory will have control over it
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