Is there one nation that hasn't benefited off of slavery?

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Is there one nation in history that has not ever used slaves or benefited off of slavery?
 
I would go for the countries from the Ivory Coast to the Slave Coast in West Africa - Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Dahomey etc.
I don't think any of these countries has used slavery themselves, and they certainly didn't benefit from the American slave trade.

You could also argue that no country in the world has ever benefited from Slavery.
 
Question: did a nation ever benefit from slavery.

Places using slavery or serfdom seem to have consistently been backward places. Worse, many places seem to have been plagued by slavery. Why did the ante bellum North industrialised and not the South?

Slavery is an institution that makes a few monopolize a large share of a small pie instead of going for a smaller share of a bigger pie.

So to answer your question those that did not benefit from slavery were those that implemented and used it. Those that benefited from slavery were those that did not have slavery. Having slaves is like shooting in the foot of your economy.
 
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