No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781689997 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent book and potential TV series Almudena Arcelus You won't be able to put the book down. It's perfect for a TV series. The book is well documented and written. You can hear the author screaming about the unfair, hypocritical, and greedy circumstances.. Four Stars A revealing account with lots of new information.. "Four Stars" according to Amazon Customer. interesting EXPLAN ATION OF THE INTERESTED PARTIES IN THE SLAVE TRADE
in history from Brown University. . He is a Senior Consultant and the Deputy Manager of the History Division at The Winthrop Group and has a Ph.D. Stephen Chambers is the author several novels, including Jane and the Raven King
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. This is a landmark history that will forever revise the way the early Republic and American economic development is seen.. Fully 25 percent of all the enslaved Africans to arrive in the Americas were brought after the US 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 U
Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism “Attentive to intrigue, irony, and violence, this is a bold account that moves from Boston counting houses to Havana consular offices to the halls of Congress, tracing the global circulation of capital, commodities, and slaves that fueled the development of American empire in the early Republic. “Stephen Chambers brings a bright searchlight to a dark corner of history: the illegal slave trade that was so central to the rise of American capitalism. The book is especially valuable in a historical moment when the legacy of race and slavery haunts American politics.″—Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom “With deep research and narrative style, Stephen Chambers challenges a significant misunderstanding about the so-called Era of Good Fee