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Gavin Wright (@Stanford) delivers the @EcHistSoc Tawney Lecture on Part 2 of the Williams Thesis: did industrial sectors destroy (or have no need for) slavery by the C19? #ehs2019 #econhist 
Wright: Indentured servitude could not have supplied enough labor for the Caribbean sugar economy #ehstawney #ehs2019 #econhist
Large shares of exports from the NE thirteen colonies went to the West Indies #ehstawney #ehs2019 #econhist
Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited, Gavin Wright's Tawney lecture at the end of #EHS2019 @EcHistSoc @QUCEHBelfast ehsthelongrun.net/2019/03/20/sla…
C18th Atlantic economy was dominated by sugar, which in turn was dominated by slavery; the slave trade was central to the process, because it would have been all but impossible to attract a free labour force to the brutal & deadly conditions that prevailed in sugar cultivation
Between 1776 US Revolution & end of Napoleonic Wars in 1815, demands of industrial capitalism changed in fundamental ways: expansion of new export markets in non-slave areas; streamlined channels for migration of free labour; & shift of primary raw material from sugar to cotton
