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It was not a west African slave trade
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by anguishofbeing: [qb] ^ First you have to identity these "cheaper" slaves. From where Ireland? [/qb][/QUOTE]From anywhere “Africans and the industrial revolution in England” By J. E. Inikori (He goes more into how British textile industries developed and had competition with Indian textiles on the African market. In this way the quality of British textiles improved and also shows the costs involved) http://books.google.com/books?id=f6VfsgHVk40C&lpg=PA439&pg=PA439#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE]From the early years of English trade to Western Africa, when the Royal African Company had a monopoly of it under a royal charter, East India cotton goods formed a large proportion of the exports, as was shown earlier. [b]As the limited size of the domestic market forced some of the English cotton producers to move into the markets of Western Africa, they came face to face with the Indian cottons.[/b] [/QUOTE](Here he goes more into how brass and copper industries developed buy selling to the African market) http://books.google.com/books?id=f6VfsgHVk40C&lpg=PA470&pg=PA470#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE]the petitioner and his partner have laid out a capital of £70,000, and upwards, [b]to establish themselves in the aforesaid manufactories, which are entirely for the African market, and not saleable for any other;[/b] and that the petitiioner has lately been informed, that a Bill is now depending in the House, for the purpose of regulating, for a limited time, the shipping and carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa, which the petitioner is informed, and believes, will greatly hurt, if not entirely ruin, the British trade to Africa in the Manufacturers aforesaid, whereby the petitioner and his partners would lose the greatest part of the aforesaid capital[/QUOTE]"The Atlantic slave trade" By Herbert S. Klein (Gives some statistics of the costs) http://books.google.com/books?id=1rHLyC2yHQ8C&pg=PA100&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE]Thus French scholars have suggested the important role played by Africa as a market for European manufactures, especially of the more basic sort. [b]It has been suggested that the French armaments industry was completely dependent on the African trade (which was paid for by slave exports) during times of European peace. Several other industries on the continent and in England can also be shown to have been highly dependent on the African market.[/b] Since much of early industrial activity involved production of cruder and popularly consumed products, it can be argued that the African market played a vital part in sustaining the growth of some of Europe's newest infant industries. Thus, while the more extreme position that Williams suggested has not been supported, scholars have suggested important linkages between European industrial production and the African market... .....The goods exported to Africa to pay for the slaves were costly manufactured products, or high-priced imports from other countries or even other continents, [b]and were the single most expensive factor in the outfitting of the voyage, being more valuable than the ship, the wages for the crew, and food supplies combined.[/b] An officer in the Royal Navy presented a typical cost estimate to Parliament in the late 1780s, which noted that the cargo taken on board a typical slaver leaving Liverpool was close to double the combined costs of the ship, its insurance, and the wages of the crew for twenty months. Even when all the final commissions to the captain, the officers, and agents from the final slave sales, the interest on the loans, and the port fees were included, [b]the costs of the outbound cargo used to purchase the slaves still represented the single largest expense incurred by the owners and over half of total costs for the entire enterprise. Two-thirds of the outfitting costs of the French slavers in the eighteenth century were also made up of the goods used to purchase slaves[/b][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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