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After the South Sea Bubble of 1720, corporate and private investors in Great Britain recognized that revenue could be secured more easily through cycles of financial speculation and the provocation of expensive global conflicts than through the actual commercial products of slavery.
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- Ottobah Cugoano on British Slavery, National Debt, and Speculative ... jmphil.org via serper
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