Military and Slaves

Lawrence H. Officer ()
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Lawrence H. Officer: University of Illinois at Chicago

Chapter Chapter 17 in A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919, 2021, pp 311-314 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Continuous military expenditures abroad begin with the Spanish-American War. Prior to 1898, only the Mexican-American War had significant expenditures. Another debit item is the purchase cost of enslaved people that embarked on U.S. ships but did not constitute imports. The components are carrying trade (Africa to non-U.S. Americas, and intra-Caribbean), and loss of slaves via pirates, privateers, accident, or natural disaster.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66099-4_17

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