I’d honestly never thought about from that perspective (preservation of slavery with regards to British law) but that makes a lot of sense
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It's a bit of 'foreseeable-hindsight' but religiously-driven popular sentiment and increasing numbers of 'liberal' MPs in Britain were already set on an anti-slavery course. Sending pro-slavery MPs from some of British-America not paying all British taxes would have been unlikely to change that.
jul 9, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, taxation was also not a clear-cut issue. The British government was using increased taxation wherever it could to pay down the National Debt incurred in the '7 Years War' against France. The 13 Colonies were objecting to paying less tax than the actual British for being made much more secure
jul 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
In short 'No Taxation Without Representation' was a pro-rebellion slogan that ignored the fact that having representation and being taxed accordingly was not something that the revolutionaries would have agreed to.
jul 9, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view