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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 | |