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The role of slavery in the industrial revolution


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Dugan, David 

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Simon Schaffer explains the Atlantic system, which involved cotton, sugar and slaves. The motive for linking Liverpool (the great slave city) with Manchester (the great cotton city) with a railway, arose out of slavery. The forcible export of Black Africans and its dreadful history is an indispensable part of the story of the British industrial revolution.

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industrial revolution, slavery, trading, merchantilism

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