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kill their slaves except in self-defense. If a master 
freed a slave after 1682, he must supply the means of 
transporting him to Africa, where no Negro wished to go. 
Slavery was, therefore, a fixture before the revolution 
of 1688 came, and it eased a little the
economic depression in all the tobacco region.
During the four decades of almost continuous European 
war, 1672-1713, the tobacco and
rice planters turned more and more to the slave system. 
The increasing number of privateers and pirates who 
slipped into mainland harbors, sold slaves and took tobacco 
or rice at high prices, increased speculation everywhere. 
Nor was England able to guard
mainland and West Indian coasts against unlawful
Dutch, French and New England traders. Nearly all
the troubled Europeans who could escape poured into
Pennsylvania as poor freemen or indentured servants,
Negroes being taken to the plantation areas. From
little Baltimore to the emerging Beaufort of lower
Carolina the process went on, and at last prosperity 
seemed to be restored, prosperity based on freer
trade and increasing numbers of slaves.