Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.

Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and Ea st Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Afri ca in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. Brown -- Endi ng the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morga n -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Sey mour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial v iolence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-centur y Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.