This is a thread debunking the absurd thread titled:
Britain was built on slaveryIts important to debunk racist lies like this because these lies, invented by Marxists, are designed to divide and conquer people for revolutionary purposes.
First of all, during the hight of slavery it contributed les than 5% of GDP to Britain's economy. More recent historians have concluded its actually less than 1%. See figure
4.1In other words not only did slavery not build Britain, it played virtually no role at all.
Next, let me present a graph of global per capita GDP, or individual wealth, for the past two thousand years:
I made a red dot which denotes the moment Britain became the first Empire in human history to abolish slavery.
So what changed after the red dot? Why didn't we see this massive wealth spike three thousand years ago when the Egyptian empire was 'built' on slavery? Why not two thousand years ago years when the Roman empire was 'built' on slavery? Why not a thousand years ago when the Islamic empires were 'built' on slavery?
The reason why is because none of these empires started the world changing events we call the industrial/technological revolution.
The industrial/technological revolution, which began in Britain, was the invention of machines that could do the productive work of literally thousands of men and women in a tiny fraction of the time.
It was this monumental giant leap in productivity which created the unprecedented wealth for Britain and the wider western world in general.
In conclusion: Not only did slavery not create the wealth of Britain, slavery never created any significant wealth at any time in human history for anybody except for a tiny elite class. The wealth ordinary people enjoy today is entirely down to technological advancements which started with the industrial revolution.