... Britain. However this idea is also debatable. David Landes (1998) criticises this view, claiming that important advances that led to the industrial revolution (for example steam engines, mechanised wool spinning) developed independently of the Atlantic system. If theses ideas are debatable, then we must question the way they are presented as facts. It is also important to keep ... political motive may have led authors to exaggerate the cruelties they suffered. Frederick Douglass, probably the most famous writer of slave narratives, confessed to doing this. In Frederick Douglass; New lit...

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