, 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 …

trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been … quickly than inner areas. This pattern was affected by French early colonialism and by the reaction of different West African …

This dissertation focuses on the development of policies against bonded labour and slavery in India between 1843 and … developments of the policies and the interpretation of the high courts of anti-slavery legislation, incrementally changed over the … institutional change developed by Thelen, Mahoney and Streeck and tests it to the case of the abolition of slavery in India with a …