From the Book - First edition.
Prologue : I see and keep silent
Part I : Origins. The first royal slave trader
Under the Queen's command
Part II : Expansion. The Royal African Company
Slavery and the glorious revolution
The promise of vast riches
The crown and the asiento
Part III : Rupture. Britain's slave empire
Abolition and the sons of Africa
Silences. The African institution
Free subjects of the crown. Epilogue : Sorrow and regret.