Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's text Born in Blackness, Chapter 20.  His main claim is that so-called British ascension was not utterly do to its exceptionalism, but built on the backs of African labor.  The sugar plantation and later its connection to coffee and tea, which lead to a vice industry, created profits and never before seen records, and spurred the phenomena of "coffee hours", which in conjunction with newspaper circulation let to the transformation in thinking and the enlightenment.  Thus, helped many merchants use their money to pull away from the monarchical system and into a more representative system, one that protected corporate interests and privateers.