And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances in the textile industry, did not mean progress. It meant slavery. - Margaret Washington, historian From 1790 to ...

“The transatlantic slave trade was no more important for the British economy than brewing or sheep farming, but we do not usually hear the claim that ‘brewing financed the Industrial ...

As a result it was in cotton production that the industrial revolution began, particularly in and around Manchester. The cotton used was mostly imported from slave plantations. Slavery provided ...

The Industrial Revolution was a period of history that ... and the cotton manufacturing was directly linked to the slave trade. 1812, a seething secret society meet late at night at the Shears ...