Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade under the Royal African Company Monopoly -- Chapter 3: Morice’s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders -- Chapter 4: Morice’s Beginnings:1704-1719 -- Chapter 5: Morice at the Peak, 1720-1727 -- Chapter 6:...

The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Using transaction records, notary statements, and runaway advertisements, we provide the first quantitative estimates of the extent of...