Because nobody cared until then... (the more you delete this the more ill post it moderators...)
If there is conflict between a free state and slave states, it's very obvious why. Slave states have people working and working everyday and night, but in free states people get to do what they would like, whenever they'd like. They would have conflict because the "slave states" want to have what the free states have. I hope this helped.
Answer:
yes they did.
Explanation:
By the late 17th century Caribbean rum was a thriving export trade and became part of the triangular trade where molasses was sent to New England to be distilled into rum. Rum was then shipped to West Africa and exchanged for slaves which in turn were sent to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
A large British force was defeated