Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York. He has published widely on the history of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of war. His publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002); The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), and most recently Waterloo (2015), a study of the battle and its place in public memory. He is currently preparing (as general editor) the three-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.

• Preface: The Death of the French Atlantic? PART 1: BEFORE THE STORM 1: The French Atlantic World 2: The Port Cities of the French Atlantic 3: The Years of Economic Prosperity 4: France and the Slave Trade 5: Populating the French Atlantic PART 2: WAR AND REVOLUTION 6: Debating Slavery 7: The French Revolution in the Atlantic Ports 8: Merchants, Planters, and Revolutionary Politics 9: War and Revolution in the Caribbean 10: The Saint-Domingue Diaspora in the Atlantic World 11: Economic Stagnation and Decay PART 3: EMERGING FROM CRISIS 12: The Congress of Vienna and the Politics of Slavery 13: The Illegal Slave Trade 14: The Slave Trade in Collective Memory Conclusion Bibliography

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York. He has published widely on the history of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of war. His publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002); The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), and most recently Waterloo (2015), a study of the battle and its place in public memory. He is currently preparing (as general editor) the three-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.

• Preface: The Death of the French Atlantic? PART 1: BEFORE THE STORM 1: The French Atlantic World 2: The Port Cities of the French Atlantic 3: The Years of Economic Prosperity 4: France and the Slave Trade 5: Populating the French Atlantic PART 2: WAR AND REVOLUTION 6: Debating Slavery 7: The French Revolution in the Atlantic Ports 8: Merchants, Planters, and Revolutionary Politics 9: War and Revolution in the Caribbean 10: The Saint-Domingue Diaspora in the Atlantic World 11: Economic Stagnation and Decay PART 3: EMERGING FROM CRISIS 12: The Congress of Vienna and the Politics of Slavery 13: The Illegal Slave Trade 14: The Slave Trade in Collective Memory Conclusion Bibliography

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York. He has published widely on the history of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of war. His publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002); The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), and most recently Waterloo (2015), a study of the battle and its place in public memory. He is currently preparing (as general editor) the three-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.

• Preface: The Death of the French Atlantic? PART 1: BEFORE THE STORM 1: The French Atlantic World 2: The Port Cities of the French Atlantic 3: The Years of Economic Prosperity 4: France and the Slave Trade 5: Populating the French Atlantic PART 2: WAR AND REVOLUTION 6: Debating Slavery 7: The French Revolution in the Atlantic Ports 8: Merchants, Planters, and Revolutionary Politics 9: War and Revolution in the Caribbean 10: The Saint-Domingue Diaspora in the Atlantic World 11: Economic Stagnation and Decay PART 3: EMERGING FROM CRISIS 12: The Congress of Vienna and the Politics of Slavery 13: The Illegal Slave Trade 14: The Slave Trade in Collective Memory Conclusion Bibliography