Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World

Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, and Director of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies website (Vanderbilt.edu/esss). She is the author of several books, including Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (2010) and Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999).

• Introduction: New Sources and New Findings for Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World 1. ‘The Kingdom of Angola is not Very Far from Here’: The South Atlantic Slave Port of Buenos Aires, 1585–1640 2. The Seventeenth-century Slave Trade in the Documents of the English, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Prussian Royal Slave Trading Companies 3. Sailing Through the Sacraments: Ethnic and Cultural Geographies of a Port and Its Churches-Cartagena de Indias 4. Heathens among the Flock: Converting African-Born Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro 5. Catholic Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba 6. Making Abolition Brazilian: British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco