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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Zones of Slave-based Development and of Slave Resistance, c. 1770 | |
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| Introduction: Slavery and the West | |
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| Slavery in Human History | |
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| Human Unity and Social Division | |
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| Notes on the History of Cruelty | |
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| Slavery's New World Climax | |
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| The Three Epochs and Styles of New World Slavery | |
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| Timeline of Slavery in the Americas | |
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| Table: Slave-Related Atlantic Trade, Including Re-exports | |
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| Empires and Plantations | |
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| The Spanish Conquest: Destruction, Enslavement and the Baroque | |
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| Absolutism and Precious Metals | |
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| 'Are These Not Men?' | |
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| Structures of Baroque Power | |
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| Native Tribute and the Silver Regime | |
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| Mercantile Empire and the Slave Plantation: Brazil Leads, the Dutch, English and French Refine the Formula | |
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| Cash Demand, Exotic Produce, Tied Labour | |
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| The New Plantation | |
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| The French Outperform the English | |
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| Plantation Hierarchy, Social Order and the Atlantic System | |
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| The Commercial Transformation of African Slavery | |
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| The New Merchants and Planters Outflank the Free Air Doctrine | |
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| Tying the Knot of Slavery | |
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| The Distinctive Character of New World Slavery | |
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| The Subversive Boom | |
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| Slavery and Industrialization | |
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| Black Aspirations and the 'Picaresque Proletariat' | |
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| The Planters Back Colonial Revolt | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| From the Critique of Slavery to the Abolitionist Movement | |
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| Popular Anti-Slavery and the Birth of Abolitionism | |
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| Sovereignty, Sentiment and Order | |
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| Patriotism and Anti-Slavery | |
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| Abolitionism and Reform | |
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| The Haitian Pivot | |
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| Haitians Claim the Rights of Man | |
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| Recognizing the Haitian Revolution | |
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| Slavery and the French Revolution | |
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| Haiti and the Race Bar | |
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| Slavery Overturned, 1791-94 | |
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| Currents of Caribbean Anti-Slavery | |
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| Tou Moun se Moun | |
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| Vive La R�publique? | |
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| Decline of the Plantation | |
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| French Recognition, Civil Society and a Triple Revolution | |
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| A 'Nearly Genocidal' Revolution? | |
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| Results and Prospects I: Slave-Trade Abolition | |
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| US Slave-Trade Abolition | |
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| The British Abolitionist Campaign of 1814 | |
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| Planters Look for Allies | |
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| Jefferson and Southern Leadership | |
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| Napoleon, Louisiana and the Atlantic Chess Board | |
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| Haiti and the Idea of Revolution | |
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| Results and Prospects II: Latin America | |
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| Slavery, Race and Citizenship | |
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| Slavery on Notice | |
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| Haitian Epilogue | |
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| The Age of Abolition | |
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| Abolitionism Advances - But Slavery is Resurgent | |
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| Abolition Advances | |
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| The New American Slavery: A Sketch | |
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| The New Racism | |
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| Capitalism and Slavery: An Irrepressible Conflict? | |
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| Free Labour and the Bourgeois Revolution | |
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| Anti-Slavery: Its Scope, Character and Appeal | |
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| Abolition and the Course of History | |
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| Ambiguous Promises | |
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| Abolitionism and Pacification | |
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| Dynamic Contexts | |
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| The Slaves' Anti-Slavery | |
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| 'Either I'm a Nobody or I'm a Nation: The Free People of Colour and Racial Equality | |
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| 'Free Labour': The Anti-Slavery of White Workers and Farmers | |
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| Feminist Egalitarianism and Anti-Slavery Women | |
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| Patriotic Anti-Slavery | |
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| The Role of the Churches | |
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| Immigrants and Civic Republicanism | |
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| Elite and Bourgeois Anti-Slavery: Liberal Abolitionism | |
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| The Keys to Emancipation | |
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| Slavery and the National Compact in the Antebellum Republic | |
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| What Was the Irrepressible Conflict? | |
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| Why Did the South Secede? | |
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| Why Did the North Accept War? | |
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| Reconstruction and Equal Rights: Battles Won and Lost | |
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| Jim Crow and the Robber Barons | |
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| The Morant Bay Rebellion | |
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| The Last Emancipations | |
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| Patterns of Emancipation | |
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| The Spiral Path: Ambiguous Victories, Contested Legacies | |
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| Emancipation, Innovation and Empire | |
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| The Aftermath of Slavery | |
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| Cuba and the Dialectic of Freedom | |
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| Brazil: Order and Progress? | |
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| Crucibles and Stews | |
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| Emancipation and 'Human Rights' from Empire to Decolonization | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps | |