Role of Slaves in the Development of British Empire in America in 1750

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main Body..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
Over three centuries, the British Empire was a global system of dependents placed
under the sovereignty of the British monarch and administered by the British government.
The given report document is a report essay that will explore role of salves in the America for
development of British Empire in year 1750. In addition to this, various related context of
British history were being taken into consideration (Pellizzari, 2020, pp.529).
Main Body
According to Bailey, (2018), Over the period of three centuries, the British Empire
was a worldwide system of dependencies, colonies, dependent territories, and other regions
that were put under the jurisdiction of the British monarch and governed by the British
government. Great Britain made its first tentative attempts to establish offshore settlements in
the 16th century. Almost all of these early cities were created on private industry and
magnates' initiative, rather than any effort by the English crown. Although the crown had
certain appointment and supervision rights, the colonies were primarily self-contained
companies. As a result, the empire's development was a disorganised, fragmented affair, with
the British government usually being the least enthusiastic partner in the enterprise (Bailey,
2018, pp. 10).
According to Basu and Miroshnik, (2020), Slavery was, in essence, a generally
accepted European institution long before the discovery of the New World. When an
opponent surrendered, pro-slavery proponents argued that enslaving prisoners of war was a
legitimate alternative to execution since it was considered as the victor's right to take their
adversary's life through death or incarceration. As a result, when Portuguese slave traffickers
began exploring the African coast, they began purchasing prisoners for shipping to the New
World colonies, where it was standard practise for fighting local tribes to enslave one
another. Slaves all around the world revolted over their oppressors and sought freedom via
violent uprisings and rebellions like the Stono Rebellion and the New York Slave Insurgency
of 1741. Less violent means of opposition included sabotage, espionage, and slower labour
rates on the estates. American slaves, unlike their Caribbean counterparts, were never able to
totally topple the slave system in the colonies, and they did not achieve freedom until after
the Civil War. The business of the area is dominated by mining, agriculture, forestry, and
fishing. Commercial plantation crops, that are key regional exports, and domestic crops,
which are mostly farmed on minority stake farms in the countryside, are the two types of