The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century: A Comment on the Williams Thesis*

Stanley L. Engerman

Business History Review, 1972, vol. 46, issue 4, 430-443

Abstract: Professor Engerman constructs estimates of relevant data in order to test the assertion that profits from the slave trade provided the capital which financed the Industrial Revolution in England.

Date: 1972
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