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Index
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1
1 Consuming Goods, Consuming People
2 Caribbean Slavery
Indian Slavery
Slavery without Sugar
Urban Slavery
Diversity
Notes
3 “What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies”
Freedom and Slavery in the Dutch Golden Age
Explaining Dutch Indifference to the Slave-Free Paradox
Slaves in the Free Metropolis: The Paradox Comes Home
Notes
4 The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa
Commercial Transitions
Slave Supply Mechanisms
Trade Relations
Growth Aborted
Notes
5 Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the New World
The Impact of the Transatlantic Currents on the New World
Bridging Gaps
Notes
Part 2
6 Liberty, Equality, Humanity
Age of Revolution and War
Postwar
Genealogies of Human Rights
Notes
7 US Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade
Abolition and the US Shipbuilding Industry
British Abolitionist Pressure, Slave-Trading Strategies, and the Use of US Vessels in the Contraband Trade
Mounting Tensions in the 1840s and 1850s
The US Civil War and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Notes
8 The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man’s Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom
Shetelu / Francisco Gomes de Andrade / Francisco Gomes
A Salvador Family
The Illegal Slave Trade, Transatlantic Travel, and the Origins of the Brazilian Community at Lagos
Notes
9 The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone
The Origins of Liberated Africans from Southern Sierra Leone, 1808–44
The Suppression Campaign and the Slaving Frontier
Notes
10 The Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality
Anti-Slave-Trade Measures and Gradual Abolition
Gradualism in the Abolition of Slavery
Notes
11 Creole versus Sugar
Notes
12 Child Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria
Imperialism and Abolition
Changing Mechanisms of Enslavement
Slavery, Marriage, and Pawned Girls
The Business of Selling Children
A New Phase in Child Slavery?
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Titles of Related Interest
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