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Explanation:

Slavery played a vital role in colonial America. Every colony practised slavery before the American Revolution. The British allowed African chattel slavery from the mid-17th century onward. Slavery remained as a dominant institution in the southern colonies for a long time. Britain relied on slavery for wealth as it was part of mercantilism. British ships carried millions of slaves to the America where they sold for plantations and domestic servants. Slaves forced to work in the fields of cash crops like tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo, sugar, and rum.

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