What Drove the Industrial Revolution in Britain? It Wasn't Slavery

What Drove the Industrial Revolution in Britain? It Wasn’t Slavery

Tags: World History

10/12/2022 Lipton Matthews

Some claim that slavery was the main reason for the success of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, but the answer lies elsewhere.

Original Article: “What Drove the Industrial Revolution in Britain? It Wasn’t Slavery”

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