audiobook Islam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson by Jeffrey Einboden in History

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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. 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 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 United States. US 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 US foreign policy. This is a landmark history that will forever revise the way the early Republic and American economic development is seen.