Philip Misevich & Kristin Mann 
The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World 

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.

Table of Content

Preface

Introduction

Consuming Goods, Consuming People: Reflections on the Transatlantic Slave Trade – David Richardson

Caribbean Slavery – Philip Morgan

‘What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies’: The Dutch and the Slave-Free Paradox – Rik van Welie

The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa – Jelmer Vos

Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade – Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

Liberty, Equality, Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France – Seymour Drescher

US Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade – Leonardo Marques

The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man’s Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom – Kristin Mann

The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone – Philip Misevich

The Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality – Stanley L. Engerman

Creole versus Sugar: The Birth of the Trinidad Nation – Robert Goddard

Child Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria – Olatunji Ojo

Selected Bibliography

Notes on the Contributors

Index

About the author

Jelmer Vos is Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow. His publications include Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order (2015) and Oxford Handbook of Commodity History, with J. Curry-Machado, J. Stubbs and W.G. Clarence Smith (forthcoming).