The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Philip Misevich, Kristin Mann

Preface Introduction Consuming Goods, Consuming People: Reflections on the Transatlantic Slave Trade - David Richardson Caribbean Slavery - Philip Morgan "What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies": The Dutch and the Slave-Free Paradox - Rik van Welie The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa - Jelmer Vos Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Daniel B. Domingues da Silva Liberty, Equality, Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France - Seymour Drescher US Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade - Leonardo Marques The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man's Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom - Kristin Mann The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone - Philip Misevich The Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality - Stanley L. Engerman Creole versus Sugar: The Birth of the Trinidad Nation - Robert Goddard Child Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria - Olatunji Ojo Selected Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index