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Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

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Indian Cotton Productions Increased During the Civil War

There was a proposed policy that would have enforced all labor contracts in british control by the east india company. This law would have been, you know, very coercive and sort of made the wage labor in india more like slavery. There was a proposal to have such a criminalization of violations of contract law applied to indian peasants with the notion that that would have led to an expansion of the cotton supply. And the guy, charles would, he did not accept that law. In fact, he was self upbraided for refusing to enact that law at the behest of the manchester men heu,. He refused and secarar asim secreta the law passing

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