The term that best characterizes the events <span>described in this passage would be "imperialism," since the British acted in an imperialist nature when seizing sovereign Chinese land in such a way. </span>
According to the
census of 1790, there were about seven hundred thousand slaves of African
ancestry lived in the colonies, (precisely 694,280) with the most living in the state of Virginia where <span>292,627 enslaved Africans were counted. Although
there had been some skepticism about the counting that it might be undercounted. </span>
