He acknowledges British Empire credit for starting liberal global income convergence (for Ferguson, a good thing, we need more of it), as well as free trade, free movement of labor, using as his best example the very widespread Empire use of so called indentured coolie Indian and Chinese labor.
He doesn't point out the hypocrisy of having fomented movements against slavery everywhere, even while it was the greatest slave merchant provider, against its Great Power rivals, and in the Empire, and while expanding the use of Asian coolies who were, in everything but name, slaves. Empire, 'Conclusion'.
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