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Acknowledgements


Foreword


Stephen Small, UC Berkeley


Preface


Artwell Cain, NiNsee


1. Introduction, Goals and Issues


Introduction and Goals


Context and Concepts


Importance and Relevance


Overview of Chapters


2. Transatlantic Slavery and the Rise of the European


World Order


The Age of Banditry (1492-1648)


Sovereignty and Chattel Slavery (1648-1789)


Citizenship, Slavery and the 'Free Soil Ideology'


Science and Chattel Slavery


3. Chattel Slavery, Sugar and Salt


Slavery and the Making of Global Economy


Slavery and Sugar


Sugar and Suriname


Pacification and Resistance


4. Abolition without Emancipation


European and Systemic Context


From Regulation to Intervention


Modalities of Abolition: Progressive Control versus


Transformative Change


Abolition and Citizenship


5. Trajectories of Emancipation: Religion, Class,


Gender and Race


Religion and Emancipation


Class and Emancipation


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Gender and Emancipation


Race and Emancipation


The Immediate Aftermath of Abolition


6. The Legacy of Slavery: The Unfinished Business of


Emancipation


Memory and Dignitarianism


Commemorators and Commemoration


Integration and Multiculturalism


NiNsee as a Contested Project


Museums and Galleries


Reparations


Anniversaries and Apologies


7. Conclusion: Parallel Histories and Intertwined


Belonging


Some Conclusions


A Final Note


Bibliography


Index