Why did the american colonists have the rights of english men?

I believe that the american colonists felt that they had rights of englishmen because their charters guaranteed them these rights and they emigrates and descendants of emigrated from England

The rights of the Englishmen are perceived traditional rights of citizens of England. Some colonists that objected to British rule in the British colonies in North America argued that their traditional rights as Englishmen were being violated. This subsequently became a justification for the American revolution.

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.

The story involves love between two people