Introduction; The Danish Edict of 16th March 1792 to abolish the slave trade, Erik Gobel; The struggle for black liberty: revolution and emancipation in Saint Domingue, J.J. Pierce; Racial equality, slavery and colonial secession during the constituent assembly, D. Geggues; The Societe des Amis des Noirs and the abolition of slavery, D.P. Resnick; Slaves by nature/ domestic animals and human slaves, K. Jacoby; Whose abolition? Popular pressure and the ending of the British slave trade, Seymour Drescher; Capitalism and slavery: a critique, Roger Anstey; British evangelicals, economic warfare and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, 1794-1810, Ann Burton; The planter class and British West Indian sugar production before and after emancipation, William A. Green; The British contribution to the 19th-century transatlantic slave trade, David Eltis; Shipping patterns and mortality in the African slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-30, Herbert Klein and Stanley Engerman; Fluctuations in age and sex ratios in the transatlantic slave trade, 1663-1864, David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman; The amelioration of British West Indian slavery, 1750-1834: technical change and the plough, J.R. Ward; Slave resistance and white reaction in the British Windward Islands, 1763-1833, Bernard Marshall; The abolition of negro slavery and British parliamentary politics, 1832-3, I. Gross; Abolitionist pressures on the concert of Europe, 1814-32, Betty Fladeland; The road to 1848: interpreting French anti-slavery, Laurent Dubois; Causes of the abolition of negro slavery in Brazil: an interpretive essay, Richard Graham; Brazilian slavery re-examined: a review article, Richard Graham; The contraband slave trade to Brazil, 1831-45, Robert Conrad; Brazilian abolition in comparative perspective, Seymour Drescher; Systems of domination after slavery: the control of land and labour in the British West Indies after 1838, O. Nigel Bolland; Slavery by another name: apprenticed women in Jamaican workhouses in the period 1834-81, H. Altink; Hearing slave voices: the fiscal's reports of Berbice and Demerara-Essequeo, J. Lean and T. Burnard; The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in the Bight of Biafra, David Northrup; Index.