Introduction: Why the ''Second Slavery''? Patterns of the ''First Slavery'' Slavery''s Survivors: The American South, Brazil, Cuba Distinctiveness of the Second Slavery Industry, Finance and Slavery Fortifications of the Second Slavery Part One: Westwards Expansion I 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 A Choice for Slavery II 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 St Domingue The Plantation Surge Cuba as a Slave Society The Colonial Pact A Model Colony? III 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''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 IV 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 Slaveholder as Colonist and Potentate Natural Economy and the Reproduction of the Slave Population V Slaveholder Capitalism, Credit and Westwards Expansion Slaveholders 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 Part Two: Why the Slaveowners Lost VI. 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 VII. Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War Anti-Slavery and the Northern Milieu The Appeal and the Liberator The American Anti-Slavery Society ''A Shock as of an Earthquake'': Pro-Slavery Overreaches Splits over Women''s Rights The Whig and Liberty parties The Role of Frederick Douglass Political Abolitionism, Free Soil and the Wilmot Proviso Militant Anti-slavery The Dynamics of the Sectional Conflict The Fugitive Slave Law and Underground Railroad Bleeding Kansas The Rise of the Republican Party The Slave Power and the Dred Scott Decision John Brown''s Body The Last Cords of Union Break The Meaning of Secession: A Slaveholders'' Revolt VIII. Emancipation and Reconstruction in North America War for the Union Novelty of the US Civil War Lincoln Discovers that Patriotism Is Not Enough The Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation from Above and Below The Defeat of the Confederacy Presidential Reconstruction and the Radical Challenge The Radical Programme: Confiscation and Black Suffrage The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in the South The North and Radical Reconstruction Blacks and Whites in the New South A Second Revolution? IX. The Ending of Slavery in Cuba Cuba and Isabelline Spain Puerto Rican Comparisons Tepid Abolitionism of the Cuban Middle Class Spain''s Politics of Attraction Crisis of the Isabelline Regime Abolitionism and the Priorities of Imperialist Diplomacy The Moret Law The ''Lottery of Princes'' The Republic of Dukes Bourbon Restoration and the Triumph of the Rentier The Pact of Zanjón Slavery Ends at Last The United States Seizes Control X. Brazil: The Last Emancipation Slavery''s Place in the Imperial Order Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ban The War with Paraguay Crabwise Advance of Emancipationism The Rio Branco Law of 1871 The Political Economy of Freedom Church and State The Social Profile of Brazilian Abolitionism Republicanism and Positivism The Abolitionist Offensive, 1880-4 The Final Assault on Slavery Ordered Freedom ''A Tattered and Ridiculous Liberty'' Epilogue: Legacies of Slavery and Abolition Acknowledgements.