Slavery as an economic and social system. Slavery in the New World ; Occupational patterns ; Unraveling some economic riddles ; The development of the southern economy ; The population question ; Changing interpretations of slave culture -- The ideological and political campaign against slavery. The British campaign ; The American campaign: from the Revolution to the abolitionist crusade ; The American campaign: breaching the barriers to antislavery politics ; The American campaign: forging a victorious antislavery coalition -- Afterword: the moral problem of slavery.