Contents: Third Series, Vol. LXVI, No. 4

Staff
Editors’ Preface
Christopher Grasso and Scott E. Casper669
Introduction:
Atlantic Ambiguities of British and American Abolition
Joseph C. Miller677
Africa and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Adiele E. Afigbo705

Imperial Contexts

Image Gallery
 
Was Abolition of the U.S. and British Slave Trade Significant in the Broader Atlantic Context?
David Eltis717
History’s Engines:
British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution
Seymour Drescher737
“Dread of insurrection”:
Abolitionism, Security, and Labor in Britain’s West Indian Colonies, 1760–1823
Claudius Fergus757
Peter Thonning, the Guinea Commission, and Denmark’s Postabolition African Colonial Policy, 1803–50
Daniel P. Hopkins781
Keeping Up Appearances:
The International Politics of Slave Trade Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Matthew Mason809
An “abominable” New Trade:
The Closing of the African Slave Trade and the Changing Patterns of U.S. Political Power, 1808–60
Steven Deyle833
a supplement presenting the intraregional slave trade over time is available online

African Experiences

Image Gallery
“Eating” Luxury:
Fante Middlemen, British Goods, and Changing Dependencies on the Gold Coast, 1750–1821
Ty M. Reese853
Suppressing a Nefarious Traffic:
Britain and the Abolition of Slave Trading in India and the Western Indian Ocean, 1770–1830
Richard B. Allen873
Slaves, Gum, and Peanuts:
Adaptation to the End of the Slave Trade in Senegal, 1817–48
Martin A. Klein895
The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Transformation of the South-Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century
David M. Gordon915
an interactive map showing migrants, traders, and caravan routes is available online

Living Legacies

Image Gallery
Social Exclusion:
An Aftermath of the Abolition of Slave Trade in Northern Igboland, Nigeria
Apex A. Apeh and Chukwuma C. Opata941
Modern Trokosi and the 1807 Abolition in Ghana:
Connecting Past and Present
Sandra E. Greene959
The Transatlantic Slave Trade in Ghanaian Academic Historiography:
History, Memory, and Power
Ella Keren975

Reviews of Books

Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. By Saidiya Hartman1001
Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. By Robert Olwell1004
Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. By Christopher Leslie Brown1007
Boulukos, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. By Felicity Nussbaum1011
Boulukos, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. By Felicity Nussbaum1014

Content in the History Cooperative database is intended for personal, noncommercial use only. You may not reproduce, publish, distribute, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, modify, create derivative works from, display, or in any way exploit the History Cooperative database in whole or in part without the written permission of the copyright holder.