Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth: a contribution to the debate

Hudson, Paul

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“…38 In England and Wales 35 Inikori (2002;314-61); Hudson (2021). 36 Hudson (2014); Hudson (2021); Rönnbäck (2014). 37 Inikori (2002: 362-404); Hudson (1989).…”

Section: Atlantic Ports and Their Economic Hinterlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Berg¹,

Hudson²

2021

JBA

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We challenge the idea that Britain�s short-lived industrial primacy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries is explained by �comparative advantage� in high-level artisan skills possessed by an elite workforce. Skills were vital to the industrial revolution but the timing of change and its regional concentration suggest that Britain�s rise to dominance in Atlantic trade was the major causal factor. Rapidly growing markets in Africa and the Americas, especially for textiles and metalwares, centred on Britain�s leading role in the slave trade and the extension of her plantation frontier in the Caribbean. Structural and industrial change, concentrated in the economic hinterlands of Atlantic ports, facilitated product and process revolutions. Diverse Atlantic demands and new Atlantic raw material supplies stimulated skill development and key innovations in light and heavy industry.

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“…38 In England and Wales 35 Inikori (2002;314-61); Hudson (2021). 36 Hudson (2014); Hudson (2021); Rönnbäck (2014). 37 Inikori (2002: 362-404); Hudson (1989).…”

Section: Atlantic Ports and Their Economic Hinterlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Berg¹,

Hudson²

2021

JBA

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“…To assist in such a task, Hudson proposes a methodology that examines the fortunes of planters themselves, the dispersal of their fortunes and their connections with creditors. 95 The available documentary evidence associated with the planting career of John Lamont allows the first two aspects of the Hudson methodology to be implemented here (as there seems to be no surviving records from Lamont's sugar plantations in the colonial period).…”

Section: A Fortune Accumulated By the 'Strictest Integrity'mentioning

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John Lamont of Benmore: A Highland Planter who Died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad

Mullen¹

2018

Northern Scotland

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This article traces the rise of John Lamont, a Highland planter in nineteenth-century Trinidad. The island was subsumed into the British Empire in 1802, the third wave of colonization in the British West Indies and just thirty-two years before slavery was abolished. Many Scots travelled in search of wealth and this article reveals how one West India fortune was accumulated and repatriated to Scotland. John Lamont travelled from Argyll in the early 1800s, eventually becoming part of the Trinidad's plantocracy class and recipient of a major sum of compensation on the emancipation of slavery in 1834. Unlike many other Scots in the British West Indies, however, Lamont remained in situ in the post-emancipation period and was thus an exception to the sojourning mindset identified in previous studies. Lamont's status as an ‘every-day planter’ undoubtedly contributed to his major fortune which, despite his residency in the colonies, was dispersed in the lower Highlands of Scotland amongst his paternal family, the Lamonts of Knockdow. The article also surveys modern representations of John Lamont: a Highland planter who, in his own words, achieved his wish to die ‘in harness’ in Trinidad.

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“…They ignored the unregistered slave smuggling and the indirect Atlantic trade through Spanish and Portuguese ports. Wallerstein (1989), Inikori (2002, Findlay & Rourke (2007), Maddison (2007), Hudson (2014) and Draper (2014) criticize the minimizing of the importance of the slave trade, the plantation production of cotton and sugar by slaves, and overseas markets in Africa and the Americas for the British Industrial Revolution in order to perpetuate the myth that Europe reached its temporary global superiority by its own efforts, backed by presumed superior bourgeois values, and not by the exploitation of others. They developed a more complex model than that of Williams according to which British manufacturing, American agriculture and the African slave trade were deeply intertwined and the highest share of American export commodities (over 80%) was…”

Section: Historical Background: Atlantic Slavery Capitalism and The mentioning

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Sitios de memoria de la esclavitud atlántica en ciudades europeas con una digresión sobre el Caribe

Schmieder¹

2018

Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio

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For a long time, the impact of Atlantic slavery on European societies was discussed in academic circles, but it was no part of national, regional and local histories. In the last three decades this has changed, at different rhythms in the former metropolises. The 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in France (1998) and the 200th anniversary of the prohibition of the slave trade in Great Britain (2007) opened the debates to the broader public. Museums and memorials were established, but they coexist with monuments to slave traders as benefactors of their town. In Spain and Portugal the process to include the remembrance of slavery in local and national history is developing more slowly, as the impact of slave trade on Spanish and Portuguese urbanization and industrialization is little known, and the legacies of recent fascist dictatorships are not yet overcome. This article focuses on sites of commemoration and silent traces of slavery. KeywordsMemory; slave trade; slavery; European port towns; Caribbean ResumenDurante mucho tiempo, la influencia de la esclavitud atlántica sobre sociedades europeas fue debatida en círculos académicos, pero no fue parte de historias nacionales, regionales y locales. En las últimas tres décadas esto ha cambiado a diferentes ritmos en las antiguas metrópolis. El 150 aniversario de la abolición de la esclavitud en Francia (1998) y el bicentenario de la prohibición del tráfico de esclavizados en Gran Bretaña (2007) abrieron los debates a un público más amplio. Se establecieron museos y memoriales, los cuales, sin embargo, coexisten con monumentos a comerciantes esclavistas considerados benefactores de su ciudad. En España y Portugal el proceso de incluir el recuerdo de la esclavitud en la historia nacional y local se desarrolla más lentamente, porque el impacto del tráfico esclavista sobre la urbanización e industrialización española y portuguesa es poco conocido y los legados de las dictaduras fascistas recientes todavía no han sido superados. El artículo se enfoca en los sitios de memoria y las huellas silenciadas de la esclavitud. Palabras claveMemoria; tráfico de esclavizados; esclavitud; ciudades portuarias europeas; Caribe ResumoPor muito tempo, a influência da escravidão atlántica sobre as sociedades europeias foi debatida nos círculos académicos, más não foi parte das historias nacionais, regionais e locais. Nas últimas três décadas isso mudou, a um ritmo muito diferente nas antigas metrópolis. O 150° aniversário da abolição da escravidão na França (1998), e o bicentenário da proibição do tráfico de escravos na Grã-Bretanha (2007) abriram os debates a um público mais amplo. Museus e memoriais foram estabelecidos, mas coexistem com monumentos que celebram comerciantes negreiros como benefeitores das suas cidades. Na Espanha e em Portugal o processo de incluir a lembrança da escravidão nas historias nacionais e locais se desenvolve mais lentamente porque o impacto do trá-fico negreiro sobre a urbanização e a industrialização espanhola e portuguesa é pouco co...

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Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth: a contribution to the debate

Cited by 9 publications

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Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr�s �Holy Land of Industrialism�

John Lamont of Benmore: A Highland Planter who Died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad

Sitios de memoria de la esclavitud atlántica en ciudades europeas con una digresión sobre el Caribe

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