Christopher Brown
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important case for thinking about a kind of a counter example.
But in some ways, it's not an argument that it's sufficient or even that it's necessary, but that this is what happened.
But in this particular case, when you look at the beginning of a banking sector,
of a private banking sector, essentially.
When you look at the development of insurance, when you look at the manufacturing economy, ties to the plantation world, to the plantation complex, to the export of commodities, to the plantation colonies, to the imports of commodities from the plantation colonies,
you see a extensive relationship between them.
And you could try to quantify them in sort of the question of small ratios, of large ratios.
These are the sorts of things that economic historians will argue about from sunrise to sunset.
But what we understand better now is that the British economy was closely tied to the overseas economy, an overseas economy that was organized around
the plantation complex.
Now, I think it would be wrong to say slavery caused the Industrial Revolution.
Nobody would say that.
I think profits from it played a role for certain.
But there's no one single cause of the Industrial Revolution.
Yeah.
And this is what economic historians get into.
And I'm not going to be able to give you the exact figures on this.
But some of the argument goes that the margin of increase in trade was driven by the slave economy.
And so the level of...
which was swimming in the British economy in the middle decades of the 18th century because of slavery, made it more likely for both industrialization
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