 The Countess had an interest in the British colonies of North America, and issues related to Native Americans and enslaved Africans there.During the mid-1760s, she met and befriended Mohegan preacher Samson Occom, then on a tour of England to raise funds for Indian missions in the British colonies of North America.She became a slave owner herself, after having inherited overseas estates in Georgia and South Carolina in 1770 on the death of her chaplain, George Whitefield.