But here’s one last thing to consider: India was the world’s largest producer of cotton textiles, despite paying basically the lowest wages in the world.

但还有最后一件事需要考虑：印度是世界上最大的棉纺织品生产国，尽管支付的工资基本上是世界上最低的。

Britain did abolish slavery in its own colonies in 1834, but even by 1860, England's massive cotton textile industry was entirely reliant on cotton produced by 3 million enslaved Africans in the American South.

英国确实在 1834 年废除了自己殖民地的奴隶制，但即使到 1860 年，英国庞大的棉纺织工业也完全依赖于美国南部 300 万被奴役的非洲人生产的棉花。