Explorations: Ships of Fortune: The role of Slavery in the Industrial Revolution
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.
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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| Created: | 2018-03-09 09:16 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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