Includes bibliographical references (pages 812-862) and index.

pt. 1. Green Sea of Darkness: What heart could be so hard? -- Humanity is divided into two -- The slaves who find the gold are all black -- The Portuguese served for setting dogs to spring the game -- I herded them as if they had been cattle -- The best and strongest slaves available -- For the love of God, give us a pair of slave women -- The white men arrived in ships with wings -- pt. 2. The Internationalization of the Trade: A good correspondence with the blacks -- The black slave is the basis of the hacienda -- Lawful to set to sea -- He who knows how to supple the slaves will share his wealth -- pt. 3. Apogee: No nation has plunged so deeply into this guilt as Great Britain -- By the grace of God -- pt. 4. The Crossing: A filthy voyage -- Great pleasure from our wine -- Slave harbors I -- Slave harbors II -- A great strait for slaves -- The blackest sort with short curled hair -- If you want to learn how to pray, go to sea -- God knows what we shall do with those that remain -- pt. 5. Abolition: Above all a good soul -- The loudest yelps for liberty -- The gauntlet had been thrown down -- Men in Africa of as fine feeling as ourselves -- Why should we see Great Britain getting all the slave trade? -- pt. 6. The Illegal Era: I see ... we have not yet begun the golden age -- The slaver is more criminal than the assassin -- Only the poor speak ill of the slave trade -- Active exertions -- Slave harbors of the nineteenth century -- Sharks are the invariable outriders of all slave ships -- Can we resist the torrent? I think not -- They all eagerly desire it, protect it and almost sanctify it -- Cuba, the forward sentinel -- Epilogue: The slave trade: a reflection -- Appendix 1: Some who lived to tell the tale -- Appendix 2: The trial of Pedro José de Zulueta in London for trading in slaves -- Appendix 3: Estimated statistics -- Appendix 4: Selected prices of slaves 1440-1870 -- Appendix 5: The voyage of the Enterprize.