Table of Contents

Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith: Introduction: Slavery in the Americas
Part I: Places
1: Francisco Scarano: Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Spanish Hispaniola)
2: K. Russell Lohse: Mexico and Central America
3: Peter Blanchard: Spanish South American Mainland
4: Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia Paz: Cuba
5: Robert W. Slenes: Brazil
6: Trevor Burnard: British West Indies and Bermuda
7: Henk den Heijer: Dutch Caribbean
8: John Garrigus: French Caribbean
9: Daniel C. Littlefield: United States (Colonial and Revolutionary)
10: Jeff Forret: United States (Early Republic and Antebellum)
Part II: Themes, Methods, and Sources
11: Stephen Behrendt: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
12: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard: The Origins of Slavery in the Americas
13: Kenneth F. Kiple: Biology and African Slavery
14: Allan Gallay: Indian Slavery
15: Timothy Lockley: Race and Slavery
16: Jonathan Daniel Wells: Class and Slavery
17: Douglas Ambrose: Slavery and Religion
18: Jeffrey Robert Young: Proslavery Ideology
19: Paul Finkelman: United States Slave Law
20: Douglas R. Egerton: Slave Resistance
21: Kevin Dawson: Slave Culture
22: Peter Coclanis: The Economics of Slavery
23: Kirsten Wood: Gender and Slavery
24: Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose: Masters
25: John Stauffer: Abolition and Antislavery
26: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: Emancipation
27: Stewart R. King: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
28: Michael Tadman: Internal Slave Trades
29: Richard H. Steckel: The Demography of Slavery
30: Enrico Dal Lago: Comparative Slavery
31: Kathleen Hilliard: Finding Slave Voices
32: Theresa Singleton: Archaeology and Slavery
Stanley L. Engerman: Epilogue: Post-Emancipation Adjustments

About the Author

Robert L. Paquette is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and his Sugar is Made with Blood won the Elsa Goveia Prize given by the Association of Caribbean Historians for the best book in Caribbean history.
Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year in 1997. He is the current President of The Historical Society.

Reviews

Written by a variety of scholars ranging from some of the doyens of the subject ... to some promising newcomers, the individual contributions provide incisive, nuanced introductions to a wide range of topics and themes.
*Keith Mason, English Historical Review*

Will serve as an excellent resource for serious history students and instructors, who will find this an invaluable class resource. Recommended.
*Julie Biando Edwards, Library Journal*

This book is comprehensive and is required reading for anyone interested in teaching a course on slavery in the Americas...essential... The editors and contributors are to be applauded for successfully piecing together the many different threads of a most complex and interesting field.
*David Ryden, History: Reviews of New Books*

This handbook provides a very valuable introduction to trends in the recent historiography on slavery in the Americas. The readers of the volume (as well as its editors) have been well served by the craftsmanship and erudition of those who have contributed to it.
*David Richardson, H-Soz-u-Kult*

an excellent work.Its articles are uniformly well crafted, edited and documented.
*Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies*

brings together leading scholars in the field who re-examine and present new perspectives on old and new themes, successfully reviews the main debates in broad geographic regions, considers indigenous slavery as well as African slavery, reassesses aspects of comparative and economic history regarding slavery, and presents articles that bring important reflections on new and understudied sources
*Fabricio Prado, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas*