The importance of slavery and the slave trade to industrializing Britain

John Stuart Mill's comment that the British Caribbean was really a part of the British domestic economy, because almost all its trade was with British buyers and sellers, is used to make a new assessment of the importance of the eighteenth-century slave systems to British industrialization. If the v alue added and strategic linkages of the sugar industry are compared to tho se of other British industries, it is apparent that sugar cultivation and t he slave trade were not particularly large, nor did they have stronger grow th-inducing ties with the rest of the British economy.