Inhuman Traffick

Rafe Blaufarb (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair and Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution in the history department at the Florida State University. He is the author of books and articles on French history, as well as several articles on other topics, including Atlantic and Latin American history.

• Contents ; Maps and Figures ; Preface: The Making of Inhuman Traffick ; About the Author and Illustrator ; Part 1 ; Historical Context ; The Atlantic Environment ; The Slave Trades of Africa ; Who Were the Captives? ; Temporalities of the Trade ; The Middle Passage ; In America ; The Origins of Abolitionism ; Abolition in 1807 ; Internationalizing Abolitionism ; The West African Squadron ; Effects of Interdiction ; Beyond the 1817 Treaties ; Results of British Abolitionism ; How the End of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Effected African Society ; Emancipation in America and Africa ; The Neirsee Incident in Atlantic Context ; Cast of Characters ; Part 2 ; The Graphic History ; Chapter 1: International Efforts Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade ; Chapter 2: The Neirsee Incident ; Chapter 3: Sold into Slavery ; Chapter 4: An International Incident ; Chapter 5: From Happening to History ; Part 3 ; The Primary Sources ; Documents 1-4: West Africa: Seizure of the Neirsee ; Documents 5-10: Caribbean: Enslaved on Guadeloupe ; Documents 11-20: Caribbean: Colonial Authorities in Action ; Documents 21-37: Europe: A Diplomatic Incident ; Part 4 ; The Questions ; Time, space, and technology ; Identities ; Agency ; Slave Trade Database ; Primary Source Documents ; Making of the Graphic History ; Values ; Gaps and Silences ; Timeline of the Atlantic-Slave Trade ; Bibliography ; Glossary

A must read for all those interested in nineteenth-century Atlantic history.