A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.

Jeppe Mulich is Teaching Associate in Global History at the University of Cambridge and St John's College.

1. Introduction; 2. Free ports and black markets; 3. Imperial warfare, colonial violence; 4. Prize courts and privateers; 5. Slave laws and free communities; 6. Abolition and the illegal slave trade; Conclusion.