The rise of African slavery in the Americas

Slavery and freedom in the early modern world

The English, the Dutch, and transoceanic migration

Europeans and African slavery in the Americas

Gender and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world

Productivity in the slave trade

Africa and Europe in the early modern era

The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade

The English plantation Americas in comparative perspective

Ethnicity in the early modern Atlantic world

Europe and the Atlantic slave systems

Epilogue on abolition.