This addition to Longman's Companions to History series provides a unique compendium of essential facts and figures on the interlinked issues of slavery, emancipation and civil rights. This Companion attempts, in an accessible format, to give the essential background to the defining fate of the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Central to the book are detailed chronologies on the development and decline of the slave trade, slavery in colonial North and South America, the Caribbean and the Unites states, ovements for emancipation and the progress of black civil rights. The bok also contains: A section on the long-running resistance against slavery in the Americas and the Caribbean, including the Haitian revolution. Detailed tabular information on the slave trade, the number of slaves in the Americas and the Caribbean, slavery and cotton production, the market prices of slaves in the United States and the incidence of lynching in the United States after emancipation. A section devoted to the development and achievements of the abolitionist movement in Britain, the United States and Latin America. A chronolgy of then American Civil War and emancipation. A secion on the black civil rights movement in the United States, the Caribbean and South America, including a detailed comparative chronology of apartheid in South Africa. Biographies of over 100 individuals who played a prominent part in slavery, emancipation and agitation for civil rights. A full glossary providing definitions of crucial terms, expressions, ideas and events. An extensive, up-to-date, theme-based guide to further reading.