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No God but gain, the untold story of Cuban slavery, the Monroe doctrine, and the making of the United States, Stephen M. Chambers

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No God but gain

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Stephen M. Chambers

the untold story of Cuban slavery, the Monroe doctrine, and the making of the United States

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millionsdied as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism on both sides of the Atlantic, despite numerous laws and treaties passed to curb the slave trade, and despite the dispatch of naval squadrons to patrol the coasts of Africa and the Americas, the slave trade did not end in 1808. Fully 25 percent of all the enslaved Africans to arrive in the Americas were brought -- illegal In an engrossing, elegant, enjoyably readable narrative, Stephen M. Chambers not only shows how illegal slavery has been wholly overlooked in histories of the early Republic, he reveals the crucial role the slave trade played in the lives and fortunes of figures like John Quincy Adams and the "generation of 1815,"the post-revolution cohort that shaped US foreign policy. This is a landmark history that will forever revise the way the early Republic and American economic development is seen. From the Hardcover edition

Introduction: The Generation of 1815 -- Smugglers -- Lawyers -- Consuls -- Opportunists -- Slavemongers -- Assassins -- Merchant-Statesmen -- Presidents -- Speculators -- Executioners -- Conclusion: Illegal Slave Trade, American Empire

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