The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created bythe transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well as hist…