Yes. West African iron working began somewhere between 2,000 and 1,000 BC possibly hundreds of years before it emerged anywhere else. As you say Cort stole the idea from slaves who would have been African metal workers from this tradition. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/jul/black-metal-workers-jamaica-pioneered-key-industrial-revolution-innovation#:~:text=The%20so%2Dcalled%20Cort%20process,Black%20innovation%20is%20long%20overdue.”
There's controversy over that argument due to there being basically no evidence. However, as someone who doesn't like the UK, I'm fine with fabricating British history in a way that humiliates the Brits and makes them look bad.
So when did he learn enough about ironwork from the age of 25 to the age of 43 when he patented the process never having swung a hammer his entire life? His class status prevented him from getting his hands dirty, so who created this process no other ironworker in the business could conceive yet imitated like crazy? Stands to reason it came proven from somewhere else no? Seemingly overnight discovery smh
Henry Cort didn’t invent the process, he and the British stole it from enslaved Jamaicans. He is not a genius.
Yes. West African iron working began somewhere between 2,000 and 1,000 BC possibly hundreds of years before it emerged anywhere else. As you say Cort stole the idea from slaves who would have been African metal workers from this tradition. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/jul/black-metal-workers-jamaica-pioneered-key-industrial-revolution-innovation#:~:text=The%20so%2Dcalled%20Cort%20process,Black%20innovation%20is%20long%20overdue.”
There's controversy over that argument due to there being basically no evidence. However, as someone who doesn't like the UK, I'm fine with fabricating British history in a way that humiliates the Brits and makes them look bad.
So when did he learn enough about ironwork from the age of 25 to the age of 43 when he patented the process never having swung a hammer his entire life? His class status prevented him from getting his hands dirty, so who created this process no other ironworker in the business could conceive yet imitated like crazy? Stands to reason it came proven from somewhere else no? Seemingly overnight discovery smh