Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: Why the 'Second Slavery'?
Patterns of the 'First Slavery'
Slave-Holding Survivors: The American South, Brazil, Cuba
Distinctiveness of the Second Slavery
Slavery, Credit and Collateral
Fortifications of the Second Slavery
Part I: Westwards Expansion
Chapter One: American Pioneers of the Second Slavery
Contested Origins of the United States
The US Constitution and Slavery
An Abolition Moment?
The Northwest Ordinance and Militia Act

From the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase
Birth of the White Man's Republic
Indian Removal and the German Coast Revolt
The Price of Compromise
The Missouri Controversy
Slavery Outlasts the Atlantic Trade
Chapter Two: The Making of the Hispano-Cuban Elite
A Cuban Miracle?
Cuba as a 'Society with Slaves'
The British in Havana
The Hispano-Cuban Reconquest of Florida
The Great Slave Revolt in Saint-Domingue
The Plantation Surge
Cuba as a Slave Society
The Colonial Pact
A Model Colony?

Chapter Three: Brazil: Independence, Monarchy, Slavery and Citizenship
Patterns of Race and Slavery
Mercantilism's End and a New Slave Trade Boom
Stirrings of Independence and Anti-slavery
The Last Days of Colonial Brazil
Adherence to the Emperor
Liberty, Pacification and Terror in Bahia
Pedro I's Setbacks and Abdication
The Regency and the Slave Trade
Brazil and Backwardness
Romanticism and 'Natural History'
Power Was Everything
Brazil Ends the Slave Trade
Chapter Four: Life and Toil on the Slave Plantation
Racial Capitalism and the Chattel Principle

A Multitude of Tasks
'Vigilance Without Punishment Is an Illusion'
The Productivity of Gang Labour
The Slave-Holder as Colonist and Potentate
Natural Economy and the Reproduction of the Slave Population
Chapter Five: Slave-Owner Capitalism, Credit and Westwards Expansion
Slave-Holders and Modernity
Dimensions of the Plantation Boom
Slavery Away from the Plantations
Credit is King?
Mechanization and its Limits
The Special Case of Sugar Processing
Accounting for Slavery
Planters Ride the Business Cycle
Slave Dealers Become Sugar Lords

How Cotton Paid for Empire
Appendix: Slave-Related Atlantic Trade, Including Re-exports
Part II: How the Slave Owners Lost
Chapter Six: War, Peace and Slavery, 1815-60
Mechanics of the Congress System
Conservative Reaction and Bourgeois Advance
The Vienna Congress and the Slave Trade
Latin America, Britain and the Monroe Doctrine
A Congress of the Americas?
The Fate of Cuba
Brazil, Britain and the Upshot of 1850
The Diplomacy of Bullies
Filibustering in Texas and Cuba
Mutations of the Peace
Chapter Seven: Anti-slavery and the Origins of the Civil War