D.retreating to one’s own “corner.”
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>
D. Next
The words first, during, next<span> and </span>finally<span> tell in what order the events happened.
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