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How important was the slavery system to Europe?

Daudin, Guillaume; Daudin, Guillaume (2021), How important was the slavery system to Europe?, Slavery & Abolition, 42, 1, p. 151-157. 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1860469

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Date
2021
Journal name
Slavery & Abolition
Volume
42
Number
1
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
151-157
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Author(s)
Daudin, Guillaume
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme [DIAL]
Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
Daudin, Guillaume
Abstract (EN)
After commending the articles in this Special Issue for opening up the study of the slavery system to new locations and positions in the value-added chain, this comment underlines that it is necessary to imagine counterfactuals to find out how important the slavery system was to Europe. It then argues that it is difficult to imagine that the Industrial Revolution depended on slavery. Yet slavery might have played an important role for the prosperity of Early Modern Europe.
Subjects / Keywords
Value-added chain; Industrial Revolution; slavery; Early Modern Europe
JEL
N73 - Europe: Pre-1913
N11 - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913