Table of Contents:
  • Blacks and the British Empire : an introduction / Sean Hawkins and Philip D. Morgan
  • West Africans and the Atlantic, 1550-1800 / David Northrup
  • Through a looking glass : Olaudah Equiano and African experiences of the British Atlantic slave trade / David Richardson
  • The Black experience in the British Empire, 1680-1810 / Philip D. Morgan
  • From slaves to subjects : envisioning an empire without slavery, 1772-1834 / Christopher L. Brown
  • From slavery to freedom : Blacks in the nineteenth-century British West Indies / Gad Heuman
  • Cultural encounters : Britain and Africa in the nineteenth century / T.C. McCaskie
  • The betrayal of creole elites, 1880-1920 / Vivian Bickford-Smith
  • The British Empire and African women in the twentieth century / Diana Jeater
  • African participation in the British Empire / Timothy H. Parsons
  • African workers and imperial designs / Frederick Cooper
  • The Black experience in the British Caribbean in the twentieth century / Howard Johnson
  • The Black experience in twentieth-century Britain / Winston James
  • Language, race, and the legacies of the British Empire / Kwame Anthony Appiah.