25  minutes ago  -  Get here : https://kimchicrooos.blogspot.com/?yers=1509552685 | [PDF READ ONLINE]  Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution | The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place.In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson &#8216follow the money&#8217 to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain&#8217s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society.In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London&#8217s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as

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