Introduction: Atlantic/Africa / Dale Tomich and Paul Lovejoy -- African slavery in the nineteenth century : inseparable … crisis of slavery in the Americas / Tâmis Parron -- The jihad movement and the development of "second slavery" in West Africa … in the nineteenth century / Paul E. Lovejoy -- The Atlantic and Atlantic slavery, second slavery, the hidden Atlantic …

"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not … only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions … on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to …