Did the end of slavery directly lead to the Industrial revolution?

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There are 70 million more slaves on this planet now, than there was in 1850. Have we really evolved at all collectively?
*edited for accuracy to compensate for a tendency to exaggerate for the sake of emphasis*

Chaoshead · 22-25, M

@puck61 There's also way more people in the world now. I'm pretty sure (not positive) a much higher percentage of the world was slaves in the 1800's.

puck61

@Chaoshead I don't think so. I think some people are mean, I would venture that a higher percentage of the world population is in slavery now than then. We should probably consult some reference material on that, but everything is so polarized now, you can't rely on reference material as much as you used to be able to. Now history is more revisionist than ever before.