Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Chapter 1 -- Abolitions as a Global Experience: An Introduction; Chapter 2 -- France's Two Emancipations in Comparative Context; Chapter 3 -- What was Remembered and What was Forgotten in Britain in the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade?; Chapter 4 -- Dutch Attitudes towards Slavery and the Tardy Road to Abolition: The Case of Deshima; Chapter 5 -- The Persian Gulf and Britain: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade
Chapter 6 -- The End of the Coolie Trade in Southern China: Focus on the Treaty Port of AmoyChapter 7 -- Freedom Across the Water: British Emancipation of Slavery and Maritime Marronage in the Danish West Indies; Chapter 8 -- The Yujo Release Act as Emancipation of Slaves in Mid-19th-Century Japan; Chapter 9 -- The End of Slavery in French West Africa; Chapter 10 -- The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
