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Sugar plantations in Jamaica (c. 1750)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “Jamaica’s plantations”
c. 1750 — Britain’s richest colony: some 120,000 enslaved Africans growing sugar on an island whose Taíno people had been destroyed under Spanish rule, under a regime so lethal that the population survived only through constant new arrivals. Its profits flowed to Bristol, Liverpool and London.
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- Why Britain industrialised first (chapter 1 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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