Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-413) and index.

The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of mo dern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- Ho w Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave s ystem : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America - - The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of th e French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century S outh I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-cen tury south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation.