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They were slave owners, who fought a violent war against a democratic country. They could have asked for representation in parliament, but they decided to go to war. Why, because England, was about to clean up the colonies and eliminate slavery. With peace between England and France in the 1760s, England's attention was once again on domestic issues, and people in England were getting sick of slavery in the colonies. The rich slave owners, most educated in law, knew slavery was about to end when the ruling of Somerset v Stewart (1772) was handed down.
Wait, really? I mean I didn’t know that England was looking to abolish slavery. Is there a good place to read about this?
This guy "The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America"'s