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Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’

www.theguardian.com Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’

Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’

This is unsurprising, because African iron working is a good thousand years older than what we call 'the iron age.' That African expertise in iron working was what helped kick off the Industrial Revolution is just another tragedy of slavery.

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