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I don't know about an 18th c. Cuban economist who described triangular 
trade, and would be interested in the answer, if there is one. In the 18th 
c., Malachi Postlethwayt and other mercantilists (e.g., Davenant, Gee, 
Dalby Thomas, William Wood) wrote of related matters.  Eric Williams' 
Capitalism and Slavery covers much of this. More recently, papers by Darity 
(see AER, May, 1992) and Ronald Bailey, cite this literature.  Not from 
Cuba, but from the Caribbean, but not from the 18th, but from the 20th, c., 
there are Eric Williams and others (Walter Rodney was from Guyana, writers 
from George Padmore to C. L. R. James and others) who have looked at or 
developed  the 'triangular trade' thesis. Including also W. E. B. Du Bois 
from the late 19th c. 
 
Du Bois, of course, is from the U.S., not the Caribbean.  As Bailey has 
shown, he did develop a triangular trade thesis in his doctoral 
dissertation, _The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United 
States of America 1638-1870_, published as the first volume in the Harvard 
Historical Studies series in 1896. See Ronald Bailey, "'Out of Sight, Out 
of Mind': The Struggle of African American Intellectuals Against the 
Invisibility of the Slave[ry] Trade in World Economic History" in Thomas 
Boston (ed.): _A Different Vision: Race and Public Policy_, Vol. 2, London: 
Routledge, 1997. 
 
Mat Forstater 
 
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