Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Slavery in the Americas / Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith -- Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / Francisco Scarano -- Mexico and Central America / K. Russell Lohse -- Spanish South American Mainland / Peter Blanchard -- Cuba / Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia -- Brazil / Robert W. Slenes -- British West Indies and Bermuda / Trevor Burnard -- Dutch Caribbean / Henk den Heijer -- French Caribbean / John Garrigus -- Colonial and revolutionary United States / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Early republic and Antebellum United States / Jeff Forret -- The transatlantic slave trade / Stephen Behrendt -- The origins of slavery in the Americas / John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard -- Biology and African slavery / Kenneth F. Kiple -- Indian Slavery / Allan Gallay -- Race and Slavery / Timothy Lockley -- Class and Slavery / Jonathan Daniel Wells -- Religion and slavery / Douglas Ambrose -- Proslavery ideology / Jeffrey Robert Young -- United States slave law / Paul Finkelman -- Slave resistance / Douglas R. Egerton -- Slave culture / Kevin Dawson -- The economics of slavery / Peter Coclanis -- Gender and slavery / Kirsten Wood -- Masters / Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose -- Abolition and antislavery / John Stauffer -- Emancipation / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Slavery and the Haitian Revolution / Stewart R. King -- Internal slave trades / Michael Tadman -- Demography and Slavery / Richard H. Steckel -- Comparative slavery / Enrico Dal Lago -- Finding slave voices / Kathleen Hilliard -- Archaeology and slavery / Theresa Singleton -- Epilogue: Post-Emancipation adjustments / Stanley L. Engerman.