Discuss the similarities and differences in the way the British and French empires administered their colonies before 1763.

Both the
French and British participated in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade. The British enslaved
millions of African people who were forced to work on plantations and in households across the
South, the Mid-Atlantic, and New England. The French enslaved African people to toil on
plantations in the Caribbean and on the plantations of French-held Louisiana. Both empires also
directly warred against Indigenous people and participated in state-sanctioned massacres against
them and forced removal from their homelands. Both empires also based their colonial wealth on
the growing of raw materials and staple crops such as cotton, tobacco, indigo, and
sugarcane.

The French and British empires differed in how the colonies were
settled by citizens of the colonial empires. The British colonies were much more heavily settled
by shiploads of settlers who built towns and homesteads (through the murder and forced
displacement of Indigenous people). In addition to poorer settlers, wealthy
aristocrats...