Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora.Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well as historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to specialists interested in cultural, economic, and political analysis of the slave trade as well as to nonspecialists seeking to understand anew how transatlantic slavery forever changed Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Philip Misevich is assistant professor of history at St. John's University, and Kristin Mann is professor of history at Emory University.

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