Who Abolished Slavery?

Seymour Drescher is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as the first Secretary for the European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (1984–85). Known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and the history of slavery, his book, The Mighty Experiment (2002), was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize. His most recent book, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, is being published by Cambridge University Press.

Preface

Pieter C. Emmer and Seymour Drescher



PART I



Introduction: Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: An Overinterpretation

João Pedro Marques



PART II



Chapter 1. Africa and Abolitionism

John Thornton



Chapter 2. Who Abolished Slavery in the Dutch Caribbean?

Pieter C. Emmer



Chapter 3. Slave Resistance and Emancipation: The Case of Saint-Domingue

David Geggus



Chapter 4. Civilizing Insurgency. Two Variants of Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolution

Seymour Drescher



Chapter 5. The Wars of Independence, Slave Soldiers, and the Issue of Abolition in Spanish South America

Peter Blanchard



Chapter 6. Shipboard Slave Revolts and Abolition

David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman



Chapter 7. Slave Resistance and Abolitionis: A Multifaceteted Issue

Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau



Chapter 8. Slave Revolts and Abolitionism

David Brion Davis



Chapter 9. The Role of Slave Resistance in Slave Emancipation

Robin Blackburn



Chapter 10. Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: A Misinterpretation

Hilary Beckles



PART III



Afterthoughts

João Pedro Marques



Notes on Contributors

Bibliography from the Commentaries

Index