Seymour Drescher is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as the first Secretary for the European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (1984–85). Known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and the history of slavery, his book, The Mighty Experiment (2002), was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize. His most recent book, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, is being published by Cambridge University Press.

• PrefacePieter C. Emmer and Seymour DrescherPART IIntroduction: Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: An OverinterpretationJoão Pedro MarquesPART IIChapter 1. Africa and AbolitionismJohn ThorntonChapter 2. Who Abolished Slavery in the Dutch Caribbean?Pieter C. EmmerChapter 3. Slave Resistance and Emancipation: The Case of Saint-DomingueDavid GeggusChapter 4. Civilizing Insurgency. Two Variants of Slave Revolts in the Age of RevolutionSeymour DrescherChapter 5. The Wars of Independence, Slave Soldiers, and the Issue of Abolition in Spanish South AmericaPeter BlanchardChapter 6. Shipboard Slave Revolts and AbolitionDavid Eltis and Stanley L. EngermanChapter 7. Slave Resistance and Abolitionis: A Multifaceteted IssueOlivier Pétré-GrenouilleauChapter 8. Slave Revolts and AbolitionismDavid Brion DavisChapter 9. The Role of Slave Resistance in Slave EmancipationRobin BlackburnChapter 10. Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: A MisinterpretationHilary BecklesPART IIIAfterthoughtsJoão Pedro MarquesNotes on ContributorsBibliography from the CommentariesIndex

"These differing opinions and the fact that Marques is invited to add Part three, ‘Afterthoughts’, with which the book concludes, make for a lively and comprehensive debate which remains, however, open to further expansion and development"  ·  Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World