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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Shelby Scates -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Political Junkie -- 2. Something Special - Dick Neuberger -- 3. Maggie and the Tiger -- 4. Frosty -- 5. Prox -- 6. Winning Big -- 7. Revenge in Kentucky -- 8. Hawaiian Odysseys -- 9. A State That Time Forgot -- 10. Outside on the Inside -- 11. The Campaign and Aftermath -- 12. A Lobbyist Is a Lobbyist Is a Lobbyist -- 13. No Vestal Virgin in the Whorehouse -- 14. The Spotted Owl and Other Varmints -- 15. Mike's "Fish Bowl" -- 16. Pirates of Pork -- 17. Strike! Strike! Strike! -- 18. Battle of the "Black Hats" -- 19. TheWickedWine of the Democratic Process -- 20. Reflections -- A Word about Sources -- Index.

Why did slavery-an accepted evil for thousands of years-suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution. Tracing the global history of slaving over thousands of years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of Western narratives that define slavery by the same structures and power relations regardless of places and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be understood fully only as imbedded in changing circumstances

"Why did slavery--an accepted evil for thousands of years--suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution. Tracing the global history of slaving over thousands of years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of Western narratives that define slavery by the same structures and power relations regardless of places and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be understood fully only as embedded in changing circumstances."--Publisher's website.

This book, written by an author who was a close friend of Jacques Derrida for 40 years, is 'For Derrida'in two ways. Firstly, it is dedicated to his memory. Secondly, it acts as an advocate for his work. the chapters focusing especially on his late work, including passages from the last, as yet unpublished seminars

Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables and Figures -- Translation of a Slave Inventory -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Part 1. Africa: Births and Deaths -- Chapter 1: The People of Western Central Africa -- Chapter 2: The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation -- Chapter 3: Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa -- Chapter 4: The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export -- Chapter 5: The Demography of Slaving -- Part 2. Traders: On the Way -- Chapter 6: Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector -- Chapter 7: A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 8: Casualties of Merchant Capital: The Luso-Africans in Angola -- Chapter 9: The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda -- Chapter 10: Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians -- Chapter 11: Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death -- Part 3. Brazil: The Last Stop -- Chapter 12: Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Slave Trade to the 1770s -- Chapter 13: Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780-1810 -- Chapter 14: Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century -- Part 4. Portugal: Merchants of Death -- Chapter 15: The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760 -- Chapter 16: "Freedom of Trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772 -- Chapter 17: The Dry Well, 1772-1810 -- Chapter 18: Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810-1830 -- Part 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 19: The Economics of Mortality.