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yes.
What's so hard/objectionable/unacceptable about this? Slavery, as abhorrent an institution it is from our modern pow -- having been present absolutely everywhere in human history -- was economically inefficient, upheld by communal subsidies, and played an altogether minor (read: none) role in bring about the rich, modern world
It didn't... It was immaterial. Take away slavery, and British industrial revolution would have happened just as well.
And no, you're the one invoking some modern-day equivalent number. Don't do that