How important was the slavery system to Europe?

Daudin, Guillaume; Daudin, Guillaume

Daudin, Guillaume; Daudin, Guillaume (2021), How important was the slavery system to Europe?, Slavery & Abolition, 42, 1, p. 151-157. 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1860469

Type

Article accepté pour publication ou publié

Date

2021

Nom de la revue

Slavery & Abolition

Volume

Numéro

Éditeur

Taylor & Francis

Pages

151-157

Identifiant publication

10.1080/0144039X.2020.1860469

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Auteur(s)

Daudin, Guillaume
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme [DIAL]
Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
Daudin, Guillaume

Résumé (EN)

After commending the articles in this Special Issue for opening up the study of the slavery system to new locations and positions in the value-added chain, this comment underlines that it is necessary to imagine counterfactuals to find out how important the slavery system was to Europe. It then argues that it is difficult to imagine that the Industrial Revolution depended on slavery. Yet slavery might have played an important role for the prosperity of Early Modern Europe.