ABSTRACT

After commending the articles in this Special Issue for opening up the study of the slavery system to new locations and positions in the value-added chain, this comment underlines that it is necessary to imagine counterfactuals to find out how important the slavery system was to Europe. It then argues that it is difficult to imagine that the Industrial Revolution depended on slavery. Yet slavery might have played an important role for the prosperity of Early Modern Europe.

中文翻译：

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奴隶制对欧洲有多重要？

摘要

在赞扬本期特刊中关于将奴隶制系统的研究开放到增值链中新的位置和位置的文章之后，此评论强调，有必要想象一下反事实，以找出奴隶制对欧洲有多重要。然后，它认为很难想象工业革命取决于奴隶制。然而，奴隶制可能对近代欧洲的繁荣起了重要作用。