US History › Section B · Colonial societies and the English empire › Topic B.6
Slavery, trade, and the consumer revolution
In the 1700s the British colonies grew rich and populous, and two forces bound them to Britain: an expanding slave trade that supplied their labour, and a flood of British goods and print that shaped how colonists lived, dressed and thought.
In this topic
- A growing, unequal empire
- The trade expands
- Different regions, different slaveries
- Community and resistance
- Worked example: the Stono Rebellion
- Worked example: weighing the 1741 trials
- The colonial gentry
- The consumer revolution
- Print and ideas
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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