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In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not

In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the