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of the right of a white man to own a black man; and
the profits of the system were such that new and more
severe slave codes were enacted in all the colonies
between 1705 and 1719. Negroes were so tightly clamped
in their servile status that occasional revolts
frightened tha master class and naturally tightened
the curious relations of poor whites to their wealthier 
neighbors. But there was no thought of emancipation,
although up-country freemen and small farners warned
against the increasing importation of slaves.
Nor was the unceasing war against Louis XIV
without great influence. It gave freer rein to the 
privateers and pirates who infested the central and
western Atlantic as never before. These ruthless 
robbers and traders, with retreats on the north shore of
Cuba, carried trinkets and liquors to the west coast
of Africa and brought slaves to Charleston and the
Chesapeake Bay in sharp competition with the regular
British commercialists. Nor were the energetic New
Englanders unwilling to participate in this marvellous
upbuilding of the Old South.
The Louis XlV wars had another decisive influence