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ar-22558	Marshall, Robert	Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution	2024	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3883	194	51	But at a deeper level they also set out to make an important corrective to the historical record of Britian’s economic trajectory that has been largely hidden, or ignored, by mainstream orthodox interpretations: “The extent of British trade in enslaved people, her brutal exploitation of plantation labour and the wealth that these activities brought to British families and wider society have been obscured in favour of a more heroic island story of early economic improvement and cultural benevolence” (p. 3). Afterall, the book basically engages in a micro-economic analysis by focusing on the British experience and only briefly makes mention of other major European colonial holdings and slave trading nations such as France, Portugal or Spain.	cache/ar-22558.pdf	txt/ar-22558.txt