1. Transatlantic Slavery and a Capitalist Modernity
There is no query as to whether such a system exists today as that much is clear. ... The slave traders then brought back mostly agricultural products, produced by the slaves in plantations mainly sugar and tobacco until these stocks depleted and cotton became the main commodity involved in Industrial Revolution. ... The Transatlantic slave trade also funded the growth of many port towns such as Bordeaux, La Rochelle, and Marseilles but none succeeded more than Nantes, on the west coast of France which saw over 1,400 slaving voyages during the 18th century alone11. ... France experienced many...
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