The Definition Of Slavery

The definition of slavery is the A condition of having to work very hard without proper re-muneration or appreciation. [1]
The Historian David Brion Davis wrote that “We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labour” [2] This is state-ment is also agreed by Hugh Thomas wrote that on average Britain and Europe transported over “11,000,000 slaves in 54200 voyages” [3]. This is true as What set the British colonial empire aside from its rivals was not the quality of its sugar colonies but the involvement of the temperate colonies on the North American mainland. Unlike the slave colonies established to exploit staple exports, English expatriates to the northern mainland sought to create an in-dependent community. These colonies lacked necessities and residents financed imports by exploiting the opportunities the empire provided for the for example shipping and merchan-dising and compensating for the lack of European market for their timber or temperate agri-cultural products which they imported to the colonies where in turn they had received neces-sities like sugar, tobacco and banana The British Empire was unique and its development pro-vided an important and growing differentiated and relatively wealthy market for British manufactured goods that all other empires lacked. Although the mainland colonies financed their imports of British manufactured goods by integrating them into the slave-based British Atlantic, it seems likely that in the absence …show more content…
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