Introduction - pictures at an exhibition; Bristol and the trans-Atlantic slave trade; cultural exchanges - the representation of black people and the black presence in Bristol 1700-1775; gentility and slavery - Bristol's urban renaissance c. 1673-1820; thinking about the slave trade - abolition and its opponents, 1760-1791; abolition in a cold climate 1792-1807; the struggle for emancipation conclusion - thresholds of recollection; bibliography of unpublished sources.
