Freedom: the overthrowing of the slave empires

People as things: The slave trade

Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of American empires

Slave defiance

The slave owners' nightmare: Haiti

The Friends of Black Freedom

Freeing Britain's slaves

The fall of US slavery

The end of slavery in the Spanish empire

The last to go: Brazil

Abolition in the wider world

Slavery in the modern age

Conclusion.