Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction: Towards a Comprehensive European History of Slavery and Abolition 1
7. 1 Ship’s Surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger: A Hinterlander in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1682–96 25
8. 2 ‘Citizens of the World’: The Earle Family’s Leghorn and Venetian Business, 1751–1808 45
9. 3 Basel and the Slave Trade: From Profiteers to Missionaries 65
10. 4 Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-Industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia 87
11. 5 There Are No Slaves in Prussia? 109
12. 6 Julius von Rohr, an Enlightenment Scientist of the Plantation Atlantic 133
13. 7 A Hinterland to the Slave Trade? Atlantic Connections of the Wupper Valley in the Early Nineteenth Century 161
14. 8 Abolitionists in the German Hinterland? Therese Huber and the Spread of Anti-slavery Sentiment in the German Territories in the Early Nineteenth Century 187
15. Afterword 213
16. Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited 223
17. Index 253