Question

How did slavery—and their economic self-interest in maintaining it—influence these plantation owners’ efforts to resist British rule?

Answer 1

Answer:

9Slavery formed a cornerstone of the British Empire in the 18th century. Every colony had enslaved people, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town, South Carolina, to the northern wharves of Boston.

Slavery was more than a labor system; it also influenced every aspect of colonial thought and culture. The uneven relationship it engendered gave white colonists an exaggerated sense of their own status. English liberty gained greater meaning and coherence for white people when they contrasted their status to that of the unfree class of enslaved black people in British America.

African slavery provided white colonists with a shared racial bond and identity.

Slavery and the British Empire

The transport of enslaved people to the American colonies accelerated