Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …

, slavery wealth is strongly correlated with economic development - slave-holding areas are less agricultural, closer to cotton … mills, and have higher property wealth. We rationalize these findings using a dynamic spatial model, where slavery … overseas slave wealth. Overall, our findings are consistent with the view that slavery wealth accelerated Britain's industrial …

affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …