Contents	10
	Tables	12
	Figures	15
	I: Antislavery in the Context of British Expansion and Industrialization	16
	1 Capitalism and Abolition in Britain: Some Scenarios	18
	2 Antislavery and the Labor Problem: Origin and Impact	32
	II: The Atlantic Slave System, 1760–1830	44
	3 The Atlantic Market for Slaves at the Close of the Legal Slave Trade	46
	4 The Restructuring of the Slave Trade, 1780s to 1820s	62
	5 Africa and the Initial Impact of Abolition	77
	III: The Abolitionist Assault on Slave Traffic, 1820–50	94
	6 The Direction and Scope of the Attack on the Slave Trade	96
	7 The Ambivalence of Suppression	117
	IV: The Mechanics of the Illegal Slave Trade: Economic and Political Aspects, 1820–70	138
	8 The Impact of Suppression on the Middle Passage	140
	9 The Slave-Trading Firm Under Suppression	160
	10 Suppression and the Supply of Slaves from Africa	179
	11 The Markets for Slaves in the Americas	200
	V: The Midcentury Atlantic Economy and Final Suppression, 1830–70	220
	12 Suppression Effected	222
	13 The Consequences of Suppression in Africa and the Americas	238
	Appendixes	256
	A: Volume of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1781–1867	256
	B: Age and Sex of Slaves Entering the Transatlantic Slave Trade After 1810	270
	C: Price of Slaves in the Transatlantic Slave Trade After 1810	275
	D: Mortality in the Nineteenth-Century Slave Traffic	280
	E: Costs and Profits in the Illegal Slave Trade	284
	F: Plantation Output and Productivity Estimates in the Nineteenth-Century Americas	298
	G: Exchange Rates and Price Level Adjustments	305
	Notes	308
	Sources	414
	Index	420
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