Why did the US get involved in the Transatlantic slave trade? Please be write as much as you can.

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Atlantic-historian Leonardo Marques’ new book is therefore the first to comprehensively examine the United States’ links to the slave trade between the Revolution and the Civil War, and it reveals the plethora of ways that Americans were involved in the business. Marques first describes how Rhode Island merchants pushed into the slave trade after the Revolution, taking advantage of the opening of Cuba to foreign slave ships. Merchants in Bristol, Rhode Island, flouted Congress’ 1807 abolition of the trade until 1820, when a new act made it a capital crime for U.S. citizens to be involved in the slave trade. Although historians have seen the 1820 act as toothless—no U.S. citizen was executed for illegal slave trading until 1862—Marques contends that “[e]vidence of U.S. citizens financing slave voyages almost disappears after 1820” (105). Marques then explores how the U.S. continued to be involved in slave trafficking after 1820. Between 1820 and 1866, slave ships carried 2.4 million Africans to the Americas, principally to Brazil (1.5m) and Cuba (0.7m). Using new data, Marques reveals that the majority of these Africans were forcibly transported in American built vessels that were designed to outrun the British Navy’s anti-slave-trade squadron. While slave ships typically flew the Portuguese or Spanish flag after 1807, a significant proportion sailed under the Stars and Stripes, which offered protection from search and seizure by the British Navy. U.S. citizens also continued to be concerned in the trade. Yankee captains and sailors manned slavers alongside foreigners. And American merchant firms in Brazil had Africans consigned to them during the 1830s and 1840s, who they resold to plantations, sometimes to American-owned coffee estates. When Brazilian authorities—under pressure from British and American consuls—drove out Portuguese and Spanish slave traders in 1856, many of them relocated to New York where they acquired American citizenship and dispatched slave ships to Cuba under the American flag. Marques’ new research thus demonstrates that the small numbers of captives carried on U.S. owned and flagged vessels belies a much deeper and persistent connection between the United States and the slave trade.

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since most of current immigration into the u.s., both legal and illegal, is coming from latin america. it would be very difficult to imagine or rationalize a country my fellow citizens are trying desperately to flee into, would pose a threat to my prosperity or freedom. since the u.s. has a long history of intervention, but no record of permanent occupation, i would not feel oppression is the main objective.  

the largest free trade nation, along with the largest gdp in the world wanting to expand it's economic policy on us, and including us, could only be positive. the u.s. government has no interest in, or way of simply forcing american culture on us. and has no track record of it. other nations that adopted american social culture, or "americanization" did so voluntarily, mainly through the choice of allowing american businesses and u.s. citizens to come into their nations, as free operatives.