The king was Albert Edward
The imperialists needed workers to work on the land that was colonized. The locals were not an option because they were often either insubordinate, or they were protected by the law. That's why having slaves to work in those colonies was great, which is why they got them from Africa.
He used them to develop the plot. He was a master at plot development. Bierce loved to develop the plot through a sequence of events even if it made the reader uncomfortable.
Churchill<span> claimed that the </span>Soviet Union did<span> not want a war, but to get the fruits of war and indefinite amount of expansion.</span>
<span>"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
</span>Jefferson made a list of objections to the British Empire in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776).<span>
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