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ajiss-326	Afroz, Sultana	The Role of Islam in the Abolition of Slavery and in the Development of British Capitalism	2012.0	29	.pdf	application/pdf	12757	437	49	By the early nineteenth century, British West Indian monopoly in sugar was “unsound in theory” and “unprofitable in practice” in the face of sufficient and cheap supply of sugar produced by free labor in India.49 Sugar cost the British people annually more than one and a half mil- lion pounds sterling in the late 1820s.50 Two-fifths of the price of every pound of sugar consumed in England represented the cost of produc- tion, two-fifths went in revenue to the government, and the West Indian planter received one-fifth in tribute.51 Evidently, the commercial planta- tion economy throughout the West Indies was mortally ill. The textile factories of Birmingham and Manchester eventually destroyed the Indian textile trade and the Chinese household cotton in- dustries.82 Highlighting the importance of British textile to its economy, F. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29:124 M. Eden wrote: “The exportation of a piece of British broadcloth is more beneficial to us than the re-exportation of a quantity of Bengal muslin or of West India coffee of equal value.”83	cache/ajiss-326.pdf	txt/ajiss-326.txt