The world of the Atlantic before the "Atlantic world" : Africa, Europe, and the Americas before 1450 / Patricia Pearson -- Contact and conquest in Africa and the Americas / Timothy P. Grady -- Migrations and frontiers / Alison Games -- From servitude to slavery / Michael Guasco -- The slave trade's apex in the eighteenth century / Timothy R. Buckner -- The nineteenth-century Black Atlantic / Aribidesi A. Usman -- Women in the Atlantic world / Ken Aslakson -- The Black Atlantic : theory, method, and practice / Douglas B. Chambers -- Independence movements in the new world / David Cahill

The rise of abolition / Maurice Jackson -- African independence movements / Joel E. Tishken -- The diasporic dimensions of Caribbean nationalism, 1900-1959 / E.G. Iweriebor and Amanda Warnock -- The Cold War in the Atlantic world / Carol Anderson -- Gender and identity in the twentieth-century Atlantic world / Amanda Warnock -- Reparation and repair : reform movements in the Atlantic world / Maxim Matusevich.