The slave ship: a human history

Introduction

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade

The evolution of the slave ship

African paths to the middle passage

Olaudah Equiano: astonishment and terror

James Field Stanfield and the floating dungeon

John Newton and the peaceful kingdom

The captain's own hell

The sailor's vast machine

From captives to shipmates

The long voyage of the slave ship Brooks

Epilogue: endless passage

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Illustration sources and credits.