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policy of the new monarchs and the twenty-five years
of terrible wars in Europe hastened the growth of
the new American feudalism and gave it a definite
and fixed character ten years before 1730.
William of Orange had represented the principle 
of free trade so long before his famous Putsch
of 1688, that he could hardly be expected to enforce 
his dethroned father-in-law's stern decrees against his 
own Dutch subjects who always paid a Virginia
or a Carolina planter twice as much for tobacco or
or sugar as a British monopolist would pay. There was,
then, a less rigid commercial control in London,
although Stuart laws were not repealed, which gave
the planters their second era of prosperity. Planter 
estates with scores of slaves and half-scores of children
adorned the banks of rivers and navigable inlets
all the way from the upper Chesapeake Bay to the
Savannah River. The Virginia landlords looked hopefully
over the Blue Ridge mountains in 1716, and the slaveholding 
Hugenots of Carolina found their ways far up
the enriching Cooper and Santee valleys about the
same time. Thers was hardly a question anywhere now