Quoting from Poppagator:- "Certainly, before 1776, all those rich white planters who bought and managed African slaves in Virginia and the Carolinas were Englishmen who would only gradually assume a newly created national identity.

The English (and/or English-speaking) slaveowners of colonial America maintained and promoted a uniquely inhuman and impersonal version of race relations"

Strange isn't it: All the bad things in the British Empire were done by the English - nary a Scot, Welsh or Irish did anything that we would consider wrong today.