The colonies needed to settle the issue of voting and representation. The southern states wanted their slaves to be counted towards their total population because this would give them greater representation in Congress. ... The King was responsible for maintaining and protecting slavery as an institution in the colonies. Naturally, objection and possible secession from the southern states forced the removal of that paragraph. ...

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Slavery in the U.S, which began when African slaves were brought to America, had spread throughout the colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. ... He believed freeing slaves would lead to serious consequence like famine, he claimed, "If an immediate emancipation of negroes were to take place, the whole southern country would be visited with an immediate famine....

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On the contrast of the market revolution in the North, however, white planters in southern colonies were still relying heavily on their profitable "King Cotton"" and thus relying on slavery, making no responses to social changes at all. ... Throughout the Southern plantation system, probably in every acre of the field, the images of black slave labors picking cotton could be seen readily. ... Each of them is "three fifths of a human" and a "talking tool" "as stated by the southern white delegates, and a tool's highest honor is to serve its master. ...

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The West Indies exerted powerful influence on development of slavery in the mainland colonies. ... Colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina claimed some rights and privileges as English men and woman, while they denied those rights and privileges to Native Americans and African slaves. Slavery was king in the South and southern states produced mostly cotton, while also producing tobacco, rice and sugar. ...

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The First World War's size and duration required Britain to utilize the strength of all her colonies to protect her land, therefore troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa were imported to defend the crown. ... Britain also formed smaller forces on the Gold Coast, in Southern Rhodesia, Nigeria, Kenya and the West Indies. ... Yes, Britain was concerned with the well being of their troops but the underlying concern was what the colonials would bring back to their respective colonies. ...

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