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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: Slavery and Modernity | |
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| Civil Slavery and the Colonial State | |
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| Shifting Identity and Racial Slavery | |
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| From the Baroque to the Creole | |
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| The Selection of New World Slavery | |
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| The Old World Background to New World Slavery | |
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| Rome and the Christian Embrace of Slavery | |
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| Christian Resurgence and the Challenge of Islam | |
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| Feudal Expansion and Ideologies of Persecution | |
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| Slavery in Iberia's Christian Kingdoms | |
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| Slavery and the Slavs | |
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| The Eclipse of Serfdom and the Rise of Agrarian Capitalism | |
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| The Bible, Slavery and the Nations of Man | |
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| The Mediterranean, the Atlantic and Black Bondage | |
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| Africans and the Islamic Slave Trade | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The First Phase: Portugal and Africa | |
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| Exploring the African Coast | |
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| The Beginnings of a Slave Trade | |
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| The Atlantic Islands | |
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| African Slaves in the Peninsula | |
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| Imperial Portugal, Africa, and Atlantic Civilization | |
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| Slavery and Spanish America | |
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| False Start in the Caribbean | |
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| Silver and Revenue: Exploitation without Enslavement | |
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| Slaveholding in a Baroque Empire | |
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| Projects and Arguments | |
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| The Rise of Brazilian Sugar | |
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| La France Antarctique | |
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| The Takeoff of the Sugar Economy | |
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| The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Africa | |
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| Arguments over Slavery | |
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| Slavery and the Looming Battle for the Americas | |
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| The Dutch War for Brazil and Africa | |
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| The West India Company | |
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| The Dutch in Brazil and Africa | |
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| The Luso-Brazilian Recoil | |
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| Sources of Dutch Weakness | |
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| The New Role of the Dutch | |
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| The Making of English Colonial Slavery | |
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| The First Colonies | |
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| Barbados and the Rise of Sugar | |
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| The Role of Captains and New Merchants | |
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| Tobacco and Sugar | |
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| Plantation Labour, Slavery and Fear of Strange Women | |
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| Civil War: Empire and Bondage | |
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| The Restoration and the Codification of Colonial Slavery | |
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| Bacon's Rebellion and Virginian Slavery | |
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| The New Slavery and the Caribbean Plantation | |
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| The Glorious Revolution and the Colonies | |
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| The Construction of the French Colonial System | |
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| An Experiment in Mercantilism | |
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| The Testimony of Du Tertre | |
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| The Code Noir | |
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| Royal Ambitions and the Spirit of Colonial Autonomy | |
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| Dynastic Calculation, Baroque Spectacle and Colonial Development | |
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| Racial Slavery and the Rise of the Plantation | |
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| Planters, Merchants, Captains | |
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| Plantation Labour: From Indenture to Slavery | |
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| The Supply of Slaves and the Turn to Slavery | |
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| The New Plantation | |
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| The Plantation Regime and the Question of Security | |
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| Alternatives to Slavery? | |
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| Slavery and Accumulation | |
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| Colonial Slavery and the Eighteenth-Century Boom | |
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| Europe and the Atlantic | |
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| The Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Pattern of Trade and Shipping | |
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| The Sugar Islands | |
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| Economics and Demography in the British Caribbean | |
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| The French West Indies | |
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| Anglo-French Patterns of Colonial Trade | |
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| The Brilliance of French Creole Society | |
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| Slavery on the Mainland | |
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| North America and the Reproduction of Slavery | |
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| Slavery in Brazil's Golden Age | |
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| Slavery in Spanish America | |
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| The Lesser Producers and the Logic of the Plantation Trade | |
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| New World Slavery, Primitive Accumulation and British Industrialization | |
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| Markets in Africa and the New World | |
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| Profits and Investment | |
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| Sectors of Investment and New Financial Instruments | |
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| Raw Materials | |
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| Plantation Products and the New World of Consumption | |
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| War, Colonies and Industrialization | |
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| The Anglo-French Wars of 1793-1815: A Test | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |
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| List of Maps and Illustrations | |
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| The Atlantic in the early colonial period | |
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| Jacob Jordaens, Moses and Zipporah | |
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| Albert Eckourt, The Kongolese Envoy to Recife | |
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| Richard Ligon, A Map of Barbados, 1657 | |
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| The Coffee-Man | |
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| Jamaican music, from Hans Sloane, Voyage to the Islands | |
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| Scold's bridle and iron mask | |
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| Map of the Caribbean, c. 1770 | |
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| Dam in Saint Domingue | |
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| Map of the Americas, c. 1770 | |