Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Yorkshire Industrialization

Jane Austen was blind to the new "industrial" slavery. The slavery of the new "proletariat" in English textile mills, using coal driven steam engines to make yarn and textiles. In case anyone objects to the word "proletariat", even Russian governmental officials came to France (c. 1850) to study this new class, because Russian industrialization would have to deal with this new class of slaves. Jane Austen should have cared about the Yorkshire slaves that were already in England, if she cared about racial slaves in the New World. Where were Clarkson and Cowper?

Jane Austen lived at the time when industrialization, financed by New World slavery, was rapidly transforming the world. It wasn't only Imperial Colonization that was taking place.

  1. Map, West Yorkshire
  2. Crank Mill, Morley
  3. Crank Mill, Albion
  4. The New Slavery: Industrial Revolution Proletarian Slaves

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