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No God But Gain

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there was, in fact, nothing so modern or necessary to the integration of nineteenth-century global markets as the expansion of slavery and the slave trade. — location: 130 ^ref-44661

the transatlantic slave trade would continue until at least 1867, when the last known slave ship arrived in Cuba. — location: 155 ^ref-44841

Fully 25 percent (3.2 million) of all the enslaved Africans to arrive in the Americas were brought after the U.S. ban. Just as significantly, more than 85 percent (759,669) of slaves brought to Cuba and 40 percent (2.2 million) of those brought to Brazil arrived after 1807. — location: 159 ^ref-42526

Where scholars have sometimes been stumped by the apparent incongruity of a U.S. foreign policy that promoted economic liberalization throughout the Americas while ignoring the expanding slave trade, I contend that these measures were entirely consistent. — location: 163 ^ref-8572

If coffee, sugar and specie unlocked the doors of European and Asian markets for U.S. capitalists, slave ships were their key. The modern system of global capitalism originated as a machine that ran on the engine of the slave trade. — location: 185 ^ref-7017

this book will track the relationship between power, capitalism and slavery from Boston to Washington to Russia, Cuba was a uniquely central driver of U.S. economic development and foreign policy in these early national years. — location: 189 ^ref-50801

The Monroe Doctrine was created to protect the illegal slave trade and the slave regimes it created. — location: 208 ^ref-28920

“Enterprising,” “bold” and “industrious” are typical terms used to describe the “trade,” “commerce” and “mercantile” pursuits of these “ambitious” men. — location: 237 ^ref-61314

The generation of 1815 shaped U.S. foreign policy to protect the outlawed slave trade—primarily in Cuba—for the sake of economic development. — location: 258 ^ref-63494

from 1790 through 1811 U.S. trade surpluses with Spanish colonies—primarily Cuba—offset 90 per cent of U.S. trade deficits with the rest of the world, — location: 346 ^ref-46747

The history of the transatlantic slave trade was the history of sugar production. — location: 359 ^ref-7604

Sugar—not cotton, coffee or tobacco—was the reason more than 90 percent of all enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas: — location: 361 ^ref-33947

Free trade would provide the maximum number of enslaved workers. — location: 380 ^ref-8760