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"Presented to both Houses of Parliament . July, 1844." ; "By the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, &c." ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- 2. Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720 -- 3. Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans in a Peripheral Economy, ca. 1640-1700 -- 4. To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce with Foreign Colonies, ca. 1660-1713 -- 5. The North American Periphery of the Caribbean Slave Trade, ca. 1700-1763 -- 6. A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign Colonies, ca. 1713-1739 -- 7. Entrepôts and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North American Backcountry, ca. 1750-1807 -- 8. American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1750-1807 -- Epilogue: Defending the Human Commodity -- or, Diversity and Diaspora -- Appendix: Estimating the Scale of the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In this revisionist study of the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, historian David Eltis here contends that the move did not bolster British economy; rather, it vastly hindered economic expansion just as its earlier great reliance on slave labor had played a role in its rise to world economic dominance.

An introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, with an especial focus on the two centuries from 1650, and covering the Atlantic world, especially North America and the West Indies, as well as the Cape Colony, Mauritius, and India.

Britain congratulated itself on having made trading in slaves illegal with the 1807 Act. While later legislation ostensibly strengthened the original Act's provisions, there were persistent allegations, supported by evidence from the British Foreign and Anti-Slavery society among others, that British companies still profited from it. One of the few prosecutions against the owner of one such company, Pedro Zulueta, ended in his acquittal despite evidence to the contrary. The exploration of the economic, political and social factors underlying both trial and acquittal sheds light on the nineteenth-century British economy's continuing semi-covert involvement in the trade.