Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

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Deals with the role of slavery in the making of Britain's industrial revolution, the many mainstream and tangential ways in which it facilitated industrial, technological, etc, development, the urgent need to acknowledge this linkage - we 'urgently need to come to terms with slavery's inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day'. Chapters include: 'Slavery and the British economy - how the slave and plantation trades worked and how they changed'; 'Slavery and the British industrial revolution - misleading measures'; 'A revolution in consumption - sugar and other plantation products'; 'Plantation innovation and Atlantic science'; 'British ‘slave ports’ and their hinterlands - structural and regional transformation'; 'Iron and copper revolutions - metals, hardware and mining'; 'Textile revolutions'; 'Financial capitalism'; 'Slavery after slavery - legacies of race and inequality'; 'Slavery, capitalism and the economic history of Britain'