Introduction / Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood -- The Angolan-Afro-Brazilian cultural connections / Linda M. Heywood -- Frontier exchange and cotton production : the slave economy in Mississippi, 1798-1836 / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. -- The 1 o'clock flog : women work, and labour law in the British Caribbean / Mary Turner -- 'A most useful and valuable people?' : Cultural, moral, and practical dilemmas in the use of liberated African labour in the nineteenth-century Caribbean / Rosanne Marion Adderley -- Rites and power : reflections on slavery, freedom and political ritual / Julie Saville --'Stubborn and disposed to stand their ground' : Black militia, sugar workers and the dynamics of collective action in the Louisiana sugar bowl, 1863-87 / Rebecca J. Scott -- Reinventing tradition : Liberty Place, historical memory, and silk-stocking vigilantism in New Orleans / Lawrence N. Powell -- The slave trade remembered on the former Gold and Slave Coasts / Theresa A. Singleton