Staff | |
Editors’ Preface | |
Christopher Grasso and Scott E. Casper | 669 |
Introduction: Atlantic Ambiguities of British and American Abolition | |
Joseph C. Miller | 677 |
Africa and the Abolition of the Slave Trade | |
Adiele E. Afigbo | 705 |
Imperial Contexts
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Was Abolition of the U.S. and British Slave Trade Significant in the Broader Atlantic Context? | |
David Eltis | 717 |
History’s Engines: British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution | |
Seymour Drescher | 737 |
“Dread of insurrection”: Abolitionism, Security, and Labor in Britain’s West Indian Colonies, 1760–1823 | |
Claudius Fergus | 757 |
Peter Thonning, the Guinea Commission, and Denmark’s Postabolition African Colonial Policy, 1803–50 | |
Daniel P. Hopkins | 781 |
Keeping Up Appearances: The International Politics of Slave Trade Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World | |
Matthew Mason | 809 |
An “abominable” New Trade: The Closing of the African Slave Trade and the Changing Patterns of U.S. Political Power, 1808–60 | |
Steven Deyle | 833 |
a supplement presenting the intraregional slave trade over time is available online |
African Experiences
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“Eating” Luxury: Fante Middlemen, British Goods, and Changing Dependencies on the Gold Coast, 1750–1821 | |
Ty M. Reese | 853 |
Suppressing a Nefarious Traffic: Britain and the Abolition of Slave Trading in India and the Western Indian Ocean, 1770–1830 | |
Richard B. Allen | 873 |
Slaves, Gum, and Peanuts: Adaptation to the End of the Slave Trade in Senegal, 1817–48 | |
Martin A. Klein | 895 |
The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Transformation of the South-Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century | |
David M. Gordon | 915 |
an interactive map showing migrants, traders, and caravan routes is available online |
Living Legacies
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Social Exclusion: An Aftermath of the Abolition of Slave Trade in Northern Igboland, Nigeria | |
Apex A. Apeh and Chukwuma C. Opata | 941 |
Modern Trokosi and the 1807 Abolition in Ghana: Connecting Past and Present | |
Sandra E. Greene | 959 |
The Transatlantic Slave Trade in Ghanaian Academic Historiography: History, Memory, and Power | |
Ella Keren | 975 |
Reviews of Books
Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. By Saidiya Hartman | 1001 |
Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. By Robert Olwell | 1004 |
Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. By Christopher Leslie Brown | 1007 |
Boulukos, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. By Felicity Nussbaum | 1011 |
Boulukos, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. By Felicity Nussbaum | 1014 |
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