A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

Part One: The Trade
1 The Scattering of People
2 Spanish Origins
3 Spain and the Other Slavery
4 Slavery, Sugar and Power

Part Two: People and Cargoes
5 Bound for Africa: Cargoes
6 The Dead

Part Three: Internal Trades
7 Upheavals
8 Brazil’s Internal Slave Trade
9 The Domestic US Slave Trade

Part Four: Managing Slavery
10 A World of Paper: Accounting for Slavery
11 Managing Slavery
12 Brute Force
13 Working

Part Five: Demanding Freedom
14 Finding a Voice
15 Demanding Freedom

Part Six: A World Transformed
16 Beauty and the Beast
17 A World Transformed
18 Slavery Matters

Acknowledgements
Guide to Further Reading
Index