The absentee slave-owner: representations and identities -- The debate over compensation -- The distribution of slave-compensation -- The structure of slave-ownership -- The large-scale rentier-owners -- 'Widows and orphans': small-scale British slave-owners -- Merchants, bankers and agents in...

Early Spanish anti-slave trade discourses, 1802-1814 -- Defining a new discourse on the slave trade: absolutist nuances, Toreno's commitment, and Varela's utopia -- Abolitionism, exile, and the "necessary evil" argument, 1823-1835 -- Political exclusion, racism, and abolitionism in the 1840s --...

Introduction -- The regional setting -- The Atlantic connection: Little Popo & the rise of Afro-European trade, c. 1600-1702 -- The era of the warrior kings: 1702 to 1772 -- The era of the traders: 1772 to c.1807 -- Disintigration & reconstitution: political developments, 1820s to 1870s -- From...