Slavery and the slave trade -- Merchants and planters -- The triangular trade -- Slave demography and family life -- Work, law, and culture -- Slave resistance and rebellion -- The abolition of the British slave trade -- Slave emancipation.
An introduction to the history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, with a special focus on the two centuries from 1650, this book covers the Atlantic world, especially North America and the West Indies, as well as the Cape Colony, Mauritius, and India.
Specialized.