Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part One: Before the storm. The French Atlantic world ; The port cities of the French Atlantic ; The years of economic prosperity ; France and the slave trade ; Populating the French Atlantic
  • Part Two: War and Revolution. Debating slavery ; The French Revolution in the Atlantic ports ; Merchants, planters, and revolutionary politics ; War and revolution in the Caribbean ; The Saint-Domingue diaspora ; Economic stagnation and decay
  • Part Three: Emerging from crisis. The Congress of Vienna and the politics of slavery ; The illegal slave trade ; The slave trade in collective memory
  • Conclusion.