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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 | |