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In the 100 years after the Watt-Wilkinson collaboration that produced an efficient steam engine slavery became obsolete. Slavery reappeared in Germany during the fossil fuel shortage of the first half of the 1940s. (Audrey Hepburn’s step-brother along with many other Belgians, Dutch, French and other Europeans were enslaved to ameliorate the fossil fuel shortage)

(These observations are easy in hindsight)

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