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Capitalism and Slavery plants while tapping into the specificArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britains economic progress, Eric Williamss landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an