Material life in west and West Central Africa, 1650-1800 : an introduction -- Seeds of change : African agricultural workers in the Anglo-American colonies -- Cultivating knowledge : African tobacco and cotton workers in the Americas -- In an ocean of blue : West African indigo workers in the...

"The circulation of medicine and medical knowledge in Britain was long entangled not simply with the mechanisms of commerce but with those of empire. The same networks that enabled the articulation and defense of imperial priorities also transmitted knowledge and value in ways that ultimately...

Slavery and the slave trade -- Merchants and planters -- The triangular trade -- Slave demography and family life -- Work, law, and culture -- Slave resistance and rebellion -- The abolition of the British slave trade -- Slave emancipation