David Richardson, University of Hull

• Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Historical Context of British Abolition, Seymour Drescher; Part 2 Slaves as Agents of Their Own Emancipation; Chapter 2 Towards Emancipation, Barbara Bush; Chapter 3 The Maroons of Surinam, Silvia W. De Groot; Chapter 4 Emancipation by Law or War?, H. McD. Beckles; Chapter 5 Comments on the Papers by de Groot and Beckles, Mary Turner; Part 3 Connections Between the British and Continental Abolitionist Movements; Chapter 6 Haiti and the Abolitionists, David Geggus; Chapter 7 The Abolition of the Slave Trade by France, Serge Daget; Chapter 8 Emancipation in British Guyana and its Influence on Dutch Policy Regarding Surinam, J.P. Siwpersad; Part 4 Caribbean Adjustments to Slave Emancipation; Chapter 9 Was British Emancipation a Success?, W. A. Green; Chapter 10 Apprenticeship and Labour Relations in Four Windward Islands, W.K. Marshall; Chapter 11 Economic Change and Contract Labour in the British Caribbean, S. L. Engerman; Chapter 12 The Great Escape, P.C. Emmer; Chapter 13 Comments on the Papers by Green, Marshall, Engerman and Emmer, K.O. Laurence;