User blog comment:Riley.Konner/Slavery in the constitution/@comment-1376885-20120115022958/@comment-32656-20120116093402

Simply put, it made economic sense on a few levels for the sugar colonies you refer to to end it. And, the slaves outnumbered the Brits there - with the troops against the landowners in any rebellion, the result is crystal clear. The landowners, by and large, were also not ones that actually lived there, unlike in the South.