Did Europe get rich from its colonies? Full analysis on YouTube: The controversy has been going on since 1944. Some historians see colonies and slavery as the engine of European growth. Others call them a cruel but small addition. In 2022, economists checked this against records of payments to slave owners. According to their model, slave money raised British income by about 3.5% by 1833. That's more than a decade of growth from that time. But colonial Africa is hardly included in this count. In the 1970s, Europeans controlled about 10% of the continent; By 1914, about 90%. The factories were already operating then. Africa paid first: with people taken into slavery. What the numbers show and where they are silent, 13 minutes, with sources.

Did Europe get rich from its colonies? Full analysis on YouTube: The controversy has been going on since 1944. Some historians see colonies and slavery as the engine of European growth. Others call them a cruel but small addition. In 2022, economists checked this against records of payments to slave owners. According to their model, slave money raised British income by about 3.5% by 1833. That's more than a decade of growth from that time. But colonial Africa is hardly included in this count. In the 1970s, Europeans controlled about 10% of the continent; By 1914, about 90%. The factories were already operating then. Africa paid first: with people taken into slavery. What the numbers show and where they are silent, 13 minutes, with sources.