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CW: Chattel slavery for sugar and rum 🧶
In 1776, Scotsman Adam "Smith noted that the British West Indian sugar plantations were so profitable they their returns from rum exports, a byproduct of sugar production, paid for the entire overhead expenses of a sugar plantation. As far as Smith was concerned, this was an achievement without parallel in eighteen-century British imperial agriculture."
(excerpt from Seymour Drescher’s book "The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation")
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Civitaneco per investado en Karibio: Ĉu ekonomia bono aŭ diplomatia minkampo? https://eo.globalvoices.org/?p=9844 #Angla #Antigvo #kaj #Barbudo #Barbado #Blogo #Ĉefaĵo #Civitanaj #komunikiloj #Disvolvado #Dominiko #Ekonomio #kaj #komerco #En- #kaj #elmigrado #Grenado #Juro #Karibio #Komunikiloj #kaj #ĵurnalismo #Medio #Politiko #Regado #Sankta #Kristoforo #kaj #Neviso #Sankta #Lucio #Trinidado #kaj #Tobago #Vojaĝo #esperanto #globalvoices