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Oh, really?

What about plantations? Who worked there? Sigh, under each stone of European squares you can find 1kg of gold that came from the "third world".

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OK, so which West countries had plantations? Did Germany have them? Yeah, first ones in 1884 and lost all of them in 1914. And it was most industrialized country.

Unification into the German Empire didn't happen until 1871. The parts that were industrialized were part of France. Germany itself didn't undergo a massive industrialization until a century after Britain.

I guess you're talking about America. There is a reason why the slave based economy of the South was much less developed than the North.

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