What did Francis Cabot Lowell and Samuel Slater have in common?

Their inventions allowed the U.S. economy to decrease dependence on slaves.

Their inventions made Transatlantic communication more efficient.

They imported technological advances from Great Britain. **

They grew wealthy selling their technologies to European buyers.

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I agree although I usually think of them more positively as people who started the industrial revolution in the United States.
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