Discoveries and dilemmas
Slavery as an economic and social system. Slavery in the new world ; Occupational patterns ; Unraveling some economic riddles ; The development of the Southern economy ; The population question ; Changing interpretations of slave culture
The ideological and political campaign against slavery. The British campaign ; The American campaign : from the revolution to the abolitionist crusade ; The American campaign : breaching the barriers of antislavery politics ; The American campaign : forging a victorious antislavery coalition
The moral problem of slavery.