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Sales restrictions apply in some territories. Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944.

Capitalism and Slavery

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      Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
      Published 30 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9781469663678
      978-1469663678
      ISBN-10 1469663678
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      History of the Americas Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Not Just Books Stationery

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      Book Synopsis
      Sales restrictions apply in some territories. Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944.

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