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Stephen Chambers

No God But Gain

The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

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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 US constitution set a twenty-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet the slave trade did not end. 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, archive records, and periodical literature, makes undeniably clear how decisive illegal slavery was to the making of t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78168-807-6
  • EAN: 9781781688076
  • Produktnummer: 16600449
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.

Über den Autor


Stephen Chambers is the author several novels, including Jane and the Raven King. He is a Senior Consultant and the Deputy Manager of the History Division at The Winthrop Group and has a Ph.D. in history from Brown University.

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