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    No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
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    No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
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    No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
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    No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

    By Stephen Chambers

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    From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and as many as 100 million Africans died as a result of the slave trade. The U.S. constitution set a 20-year time limit on U.S. 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 after the U.S. ban--3.2 million people.
    This breakthrough history, based on years of research into private correspondence; shipping manifests; bills of laden; port, diplomatic, and court records; and periodical literature, makes undeniably clear how decisive illegal slavery was to the making of the United States. U.S. economic development and westward expansion, as well as the growth and wealth of the North, not just the South, was a direct result and driver of illegal slavery. The Monroe Doctrine was created to protect the illegal slave trade.
    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 U.S. foreign policy. This is a landmark history that will forever revise the way the early Republic and American economic development is seen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerso US
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781781688090
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    No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
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    Stephen Chambers

    Jean Barman, professor emeritus, has published more than twenty books, including On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2020) and the winner of the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award, Stanley Park’s Secret (Harbour Publishing, 2005). Her lifelong pursuit to enrich the history of BC has earned her such honours as a Governor General’s Award, a George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, a Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing and a position as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

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      Stephen Chambers has produced a readable book about a neglected aspect of early American history. He explains how U.S. economic growth and westward expansion depended on Cuban illegal slavery. He provides evidence of how wealthy Northern businessmen infiltrated state and national government, shaped U.S. foreign policy, and used the U.S. Navy for pecuniary gain. Chambers argues that the Monroe Doctrine was created to protect the illegal slave trade. An interesting and revealing read that illustrates how business, politics, foreign policy, and slavery were intertwined.