S1, E4: British privateers prey on Spanish wealth in the Caribbean, but theft is soon replaced by trade, including the slave trade of Africans to work the islands’ sugar plantations. Trade brings great wealth to Britain—spices from India, gold from South Africa, rubber from Malaya—while in China it sparks the opium wars. Gandhi takes a different approach to imperialism and so-called free trade by boycotting Lancashire cloth.
Documentary · Apr 23, 2015 · 58 min