The slave trade amounted to a third of the British economy Archived Message
Posted by Keith-264 on September 16, 2019, 7:52 pm, in reply to "Re: Quite much of the "economic growth" was a redistribution of wealth and people....nm"
which stole people from Africa, stole land from Americans and produced cheap commodities for the British hosiery industry built on the ashes of its Indian forerunner with an infinite marked in Europe. Economic take-off into permanent growth, rather than growth to a ceiling determined by supply constraints was built on hecatombs of corpses. Your economy is bigger because live off the loot so show a little humility.
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