This book provides a fresh interpretation of the development of the English Atlantic slave system.

1. Slavery and freedom in the early modern world; 2. The English, Dutch, and Transoceanic migration; 3. Europeans and African slavery in the Americas; 4. Gender and slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic world; 5. Productivity in the slave trade; 6. Africa and Europe in the Early Modern era; 7. The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade; 8. The English plantation: Americas in comparative perspective; 9. Ethnicity in the Early Modern Atlantic world; 10. Europe and the Atlantic slave system.