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Foreword | p. viii |
Series Editor's Preface | p. x |
About the Author | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Slave Trade and the Western World | p. 1 |
Ways of Studying the Slave Trade | p. 2 |
Overview of the Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 4 |
Connections | p. 9 |
The Old World Background to New World Slavery | p. 10 |
The Maritime Revolution and European Trade with Africa | p. 14 |
Why Did Europeans Buy African Slaves? | p. 22 |
Origins: Economics or Racism? | p. 22 |
Early Labor Demand in the New World | p. 24 |
Northern Europeans and the Expansion of the Slave Trade | p. 30 |
The 18th-century Peak of the Slave Trade | p. 34 |
Slavery and Racism | p. 41 |
Conclusion | p. 47 |
Sources | p. 48 |
Why Did Africans Sell Slaves? | p. 54 |
Common Myths | p. 54 |
General Interpretations | p. 55 |
The Slave Trade, Wealth, and Power in Africa | p. 57 |
The First Two Centuries of Transatlantic Slave Exports from Africa | p. 61 |
Expansion of the Trade | p. 65 |
Effects of the Slave Trade on Africa | p. 74 |
Conclusion | p. 77 |
Sources | p. 78 |
How Did Enslaved People Cope? | p. 84 |
The Henrietta Marie | p. 84 |
Passages on Land | p. 86 |
Passages at Sea | p. 89 |
African Cultures in the New World | p. 96 |
Conclusion | p. 104 |
Sources | p. 106 |
How Did the Slave Trade End? | p. 112 |
A Skeptical Query | p. 112 |
Profits and the Slave Trade | p. 113 |
Ideology and Revolution | p. 114 |
Antislavery in the United Kingdom | p. 118 |
Revolution in St. Domingue | p. 123 |
Final Slave Trade Abolition | p. 128 |
What Explains British Antislavery? | p. 132 |
Conclusion | p. 134 |
Sources | p. 136 |
Epilogue: Making Connections-Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 142 |
The Slave Trade in Modern Memory | p. 142 |
Africa | p. 144 |
Great Britain | p. 147 |
The Americas | p. 149 |
Racism in the Americas | p. 160 |
Slavery in the Contemporary World | p. 162 |
The Big Lessons | p. 163 |
Bibliography | p. 165 |
Index | p. 171 |
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