Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Slavery and the Slave Trade
6. 1 Consuming Goods, Consuming People: Reflections on the Transatlantic Slave Trade 31
7. 2 Caribbean Slavery 64
8. 3 “What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies”: The Dutch and the Slave-Free Paradox 100
9. 4 The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa 128
10. 5 Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade 152
11. Part 2: The End of the Slave Trade and Slavery?
12. 6 Liberty, Equality, Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France 171
13. 7 US Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade 196
14. 8 The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man’s Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom 220
15. 9 The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone 247
16. 10 The Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality 266
17. 11 Creole versus Sugar: The Birth of the Trinidad Nation 280
18. 12 Child Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria 301
19. Selected Bibliography 335
20. List of Contributors 347
21. Index 351