Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Anthony Tibbles
  • The rise of the Atlantic empires / David Richardson
  • Human cargoes : enslavement and the middle passage / Edward Reynolds
  • 'Guineamen' : some technical aspects of slave ships / M.K. Stammers
  • African resistance to enslavement / Stephan Small ad James Walvin
  • Caribbean slave society / Alissandra Cummins
  • Wome in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade / Jennifer Lyle Morgan
  • Liverpool and the English slave trade / David Richardson
  • Oil not slaves : Liverpool and West Africa after 1807 / Anthony Tibbles
  • Black people in Britain / James Walvin
  • Black abolitionism 1787-1838 / James Walvin
  • The impact of the slave trade on the societies of West and Central Africa / Patrick Manning
  • An African view of transatlantic slavery and the role of oral testimony in creating a new legacy / Mary E. Modupe Kolawole
  • Racist ideologies / Stephen Small
  • On the meaning and history of slavery / Preston King
  • The general legacy of the Atlantic slave trade / Stephen Hall.