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The inaction of Great Britain in relation to the production ... by doubling its consumption of Southern cotton every ten years. England now must suffer, and it should suffer without petulant ...

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We also know of a silk weaver in Southwark in the 1590s called Reasonable Blackman.Both of those individuals were within the cloth trade, which was the main trade in England at that time.