How did West Indies merchants defend the abusive trade practices? What was Wilberforce’s response? What effect do you think he wanted it to have on Parliament?

capitalism is an economic system that works around the concept of wealth creation in the pursuit of economic growth for the nation while mercantilism focuses on wealth accumulation through extraction of wealth which they believe is measured by the amwount of gold bollions that the nation has in its possession.

they met to talk about what type of government they wanted and how best to go about creating that republican government.