Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

JELMER VOS is Senior Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow. His publications include Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History, with J. Curry-Machado, J. Stubbs and W. G. Clarence-Smith (2024).

• PrefaceIntroductionConsuming Goods, Consuming People: Reflections on the Transatlantic Slave Trade - David RichardsonCaribbean Slavery - Philip Morgan"What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies": The Dutch and the Slave-Free Paradox - Rik van WelieThe Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa - Jelmer VosWinds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Daniel B. Domingues da SilvaLiberty, Equality, Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France - Seymour DrescherUS Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade - Leonardo MarquesThe Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man's Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom - Kristin MannThe Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone - Philip MisevichThe Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality - Stanley L. EngermanCreole versus Sugar: The Birth of the Trinidad Nation - Robert GoddardChild Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria - Olatunji OjoSelected BibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

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