Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1
5. PART I. THE SOCIAL COST IN AFRICA OF FORCED MIGRATION
6. 2. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan 25
7. 3. Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904 49
8. 4. The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade 77
9. 5. The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System 117
10. PART II. ATLANTIC SLAVERY AND THE EARLY RISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD
11. 6. Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England 145
12. 7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The SlaveSugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization 183
13. 8. The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England 205
14. 9. British Industry and the West Indies Plantations 247
15. PART III. ATLANTIC SLAVERY, THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES, AND THEIR ENDURING LEGACIES
16. 10. The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 163°-18°3 283
17. 11. Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729 301
18. 12. Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage 321
19. 13. The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today 339
20. 14. The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism 361
21. Index 397
22. Contributors 411