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Southern Sierra Leone and the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries -- The origins of captives leaving southern Sierra Leone in the nineteenth century -- The provisions trade in the era of abolition, 1787-1856 -- Commercial transitions, Islam, and domestic slavery and slave trading, 1830s to 1860s -- Colonialism and slavery, 1790s to 1860s -- Epilogue: Transatlantic slavery and colonialism on Freetown's frontier.

Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Slavery and the Slave Trade -- 1 Consuming Goods, Consuming People: Reflections on the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- 2 Caribbean Slavery -- 3 "What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies": The Dutch and the Slave-Free Paradox -- 4 The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa -- 5 Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- Part 2: The End of the Slave Trade and Slavery? -- 6 Liberty, Equality, Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France -- 7 US Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade -- 8 The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man's Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom -- 9 The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone -- 10 The Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality -- 11 Creole versus Sugar: The Birth of the Trinidad Nation -- 12 Child Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus's era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an open-access Web site, incorporating newly discovered information from archives around the Atlantic world. The groundbreaking essays in this book draw on these new data to explore fundamental questions about the trade in African slaves. The research findings-that the size of the slave trade was 14 percent greater than had been estimated, that trade above and below the equator was largely separate, that ports sending out the most slave voyages were not in Europe but in Brazil, and more-challenge accepted understandings of transatlantic slavery and suggest a variety of new directions for important further research. For the most complete database on slave trade voyages ever compiled, visit www.slavevoyages.org