Why did Britain have the Industrial Revolution that created the

>>2436257
Because Britain emphasized free trade and had a society much more favorable to capitalism.

>>2436257
Because Anglos are the masterrace and the french are subhuman surrender monkeys

>>2436273
Why not the dutch than?

>>2436273

This.

And they were more successful in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

>>2436301

Because the Netherlands is an unimportant little country.

>>2436301
Too small, and they also suffered a major hit to their economy when France closed their markets to the Netherlands and they got hit hard by deflation they were pretty much screwed. By the end of the Franco-Dutch war they had enormous debt and they kind of stagnated throughout the 18th century.

without the United States Britain's industry would have not have leapt to its greatest heights

>>2436257
Brits had coal mines in GB itself and didn't have to import it from overseas. This gave them a huge head start compared to other countries.

>>2436307
The most "successful" country in the Transatlantic Slave Trade was Portugal, vast majority of African slaves went to Brazil. Explain then why both Portugal and Brazil are absolute shitholes now if slavery makes your nation great.

>>2436301
The Dutch didn't have large deposits of coal and iron in their country.
>>2436257
>Was it because Britain was more successful i the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Actually...yes. Cotton produced by slaves on plantations in the US was a major factor in fueling British textile industry. Which is partially why slavery didn't end earlier in America as it did in other countries.

>>2436372

This is complete historical illiteracy. It was the other way round.

>>2436425

The Caribbean slave plantations were far more significant and important than the US ones.

>>2436394
>Explain then why both Portugal and Brazil are absolute shitholes now

Portugal sucks because it tried maintaining its colonies long after colonialism stopped being profitable/acceptable, which caused the economy to go to shit as it borrowed massive amounts to fund its military.

Brazil was shit from the start, its government has never failed to be corrupt as shit.

>>2436443
That's not true though, by the time the British textile industry reached its height in mid 1800's, slavery was abolished in the British Empire. 80% of cotton used in British factories was imported from the United States.

>>2436425
>Textile industry
I love this meme. People who say slavery created wealth always point to the textile industry as if 99% of manufactured goods were made of fucking cotton. The coal miners weren't slaves, neither were the glass makers, the steelworkers, or the mechanical industrial laborers. That was all 100% capitalist wage labor, that's how Britain and America got so rich.

Look at Spain and Portugal, they both utilized a shitload of slave labor in their colonies, Portugal actually had way more slaves than Britain ever did, yet both Spain and Portugal remained agricultural backwaters throughout the modern period precisely because they didn't switch to wage capitalism.

On the other hand Germany, which didn't utilize slave labor at all, became a wealthy industrial nation. Once again, because of capitalism.

>>2436478
>as if 99% of manufactured goods were made of fucking cotton

40% of British exports in the early to mid 1800's were Textiles. 1/5th of all Britons worked in textiles. It wasn't the sole cause of industrialization, but it was a major factor in allowing factories, and thus the early capitalist experiments regarding the division of labor, improving efficiency, to exist.

>Look at Spain and Portugal, they both utilized a shitload of slave labor in their colonies

We're talking about the 1800's, both Spain and Portugal were largely irrelevant and remained backwards for reason totally unrelated to their use of slave labor.

>>2436257
Because Britain emphasized free trade and had a society much less favorable to sodomy, horse-eating and questionable personal hygiene.

tl;dr because Sheep
Slightly longer answer: because of better agricultural technology that made a great many farmhands redundant and sent them to squat the big cities and because England was the center of textile manufacturing (hence Looms).

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I don't want to make a thread for this, but can anyone answer this question I have: What was life like for slave owners? Did they just relax all day, could they kill any slave they wanted with no consequences, did they hire white guards with guns on the plantations, could they rape or coerce female slaves into sex with no legal consequences?

>>2437901
>did they hire white guards with guns on the plantations
Black guards actually. The overseers were often other slaves, there were entire areas where only blacks lived and they were commanded around by blacks. It's a mystery why they didn't just run away but maybe they didn't know any better.