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Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Foreword -- About This Atlas -- Introduction -- PART I: Nations Transporting Slaves from Africa, 1501-1867 -- PART II: Ports Outfitting Voyages in the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- PART III: The African Coastal Origins of Slaves and the Links between Africa and the Atlantic World -- PART IV: The Experience of the Middle Passage -- PART V: The Destinations of Slaves in the Americas and Their Links with the Atlantic World -- PART VI: Abolition and Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- Afterword -- Timeline -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F

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.

Analysis indicates that the Yoruba were taller than other West African peoples in the early nineteenth century. Disease, workloads, and environmental or genetic factors explain little of this differential. Rather, it appears due to a superior nutritional status made possible by Yoruba social structures, in particular, Yoruba towns. Yoruba stature declined both absolutely and relatively over the forty years corresponding to the collapse of the Oyo Empire. Regression analysis suggests a systematic relationship between these two events.