Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blacks and the British Empire : an introduction / Sean Hawkins and Philip D. Morgan -- West Africans and the Atlantic, 1550-1800 / David Northrup -- Through a looking glass : Olaudah Equiano and African experiences of the British Atlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- The Black experience in the British Empire, 1680-1810 / Philip D. Morgan -- From slaves to subjects : envisioning an empire without slavery, 1772-1834 / Christopher L. Brown -- From slavery to freedom : Blacks in the nineteenth-century British West Indies / Gad Heuman -- Cultural encounters : Britain and Africa in the nineteenth century / T.C. McCaskie -- The betrayal of creole elites, 1880-1920 / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- The British Empire and African women in the twentieth century / Diana Jeater -- African participation in the British Empire / Timothy H. Parsons -- African workers and imperial designs / Frederick Cooper -- The Black experience in the British Caribbean in the twentieth century / Howard Johnson -- The Black experience in twentieth-century Britain / Winston James -- Language, race, and the legacies of the British Empire / Kwame Anthony Appiah.