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Concepts such as the White Man's Burden, Social Darwinism and the natural superiority of white anglo-saxons over all others, including Celts, and other races, were probably more prevalent in England than other nations.

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What region of the English colonies was slavery most popular?

The more southern colonies.


How did representative government begin in the English colonies?

The House of Burgesses determined that the English colonies would have a representative government. Does the person who asked this go to ESMS?


Why was the Africans brought to the English colonies to meet demands?

In 1619 the first slave came to the colonies and as the need for workers evolved the use of slavery grew.


Where did the opposition to slavery begin?

American opposition to slavery was inherited from earlier European antagonism to the idea. Western European Church lawyers of the Middle Ages came to the conclusion that slavery was incompatible with Christianity. This resulted with the abolition of slavery in some places. In England, for example, slavery was abolished by King Henry I, as a result of statements on the subject issued by the Conference of London in 1102. In the English colonies of North America, there was always some distaste for slavery resulting from the old idea that it was cruel and unchristian.


Did colonists support slavery before the American Revolution?

In terms of New World colonies, slavery was many times looked upon as natural inasmuch as slavery was a wold wide problem for most of the history on humankind. In Colonial America, slaves in North America arrived in the English colony of Jamestown in 1620. As the British colonies expanded in North America, slavery began to be abolished in the Northern colonies, however, in the Southern colonies it was supported under British and later US law.