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Whose influence is shown by no immediate law on slavery?

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Correct answer: Merchants and plantation owners

The direct answer is A, merchants and plantation owners. Slavery and the slave trade were connected with large economic profits. Merchants made money by transporting and trading enslaved people, while plantation owners depended on enslaved labour to produce profitable crops in the colonies. Because these powerful groups feared losing their wealth, they could influence lawmakers and delay immediate abolition. Option A is correct because it identifies the economic interests that resisted a quick law against slavery. Option B, poor peasants, were mainly concerned with land, rents, taxes and feudal burdens in France; they were not the main commercial group protecting colonial slavery. Option C, schools, are educational institutions and did not control the colonial trade or make the relevant political pressure. Option D, Bastille prisoners, were associated with the prison-fortress attacked in 1789 and had no such organised economic influence over slavery legislation. The important lesson is that revolutionary words such as liberty and equality could conflict with the financial interests of powerful groups. Do not assume that every revolutionary institution immediately applied its ideals everywhere. Exam cue: when a law is delayed despite moral arguments, look for groups gaining money or power from the old system.

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