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That it was precisely productive forces that left is not at all unique. It happens in all migrations. If you look at the period between 1500 and 1900… - Piet Emmer
" "That it was precisely productive forces that left is not at all unique. It happens in all migrations. If you look at the period between 1500 and 1900, when that Atlantic slave trade took place, many more people left Europe exactly in the same age range, without us in Europe complaining about losing productive forces.
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About Piet Emmer
Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Emmer (Haarlem, 17 October 1944) is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of Colonial History at Leiden University, specializing in European Expansion and related slavery and immigration.
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There is also emotional literature about the occupation period. That war was not cheerful in the Netherlands, but in my school days, everything was so wonderfully exaggerated, especially the role of the resistance. The facts were pushed aside and if that had continued, we would never have come to any new insights. If we had been blinded by Anne Frank, we would never have discovered that the Netherlands did not play a heroic role at all during that time.
Slavery is a common thing. We should not be ashamed of that at all. What we should try to explain is why there was no longer slavery in Western Europe after 1450, but there was still slavery elsewhere in the world. I would venture the proposition that with slavery, Western Europe would have become even richer and grown faster economically than without slavery.
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