One Very Difficult Question That Needs Answering « Expat Yank

re: "...In fact, it might even be said that Mr Myrie and many others have matters exactly backwards. Firstly, there was not a pre-industrial age that was non-slavery, but which became slave afterwards and then “funded” the rise of industrialism. Secondly, enforced labor, pre-1700, had always been part and parcel of settled human existence everywhere..."...