Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note on spelling and dating -- Introduction -- England's Jewish merchants and the slave trade -- Jews and slaves in seventeenth-century Barbados and Jamaica -- Jews and slavery in Jamaica, 1700-80 -- Jews and slavery in Barbados and Nevis, 1700-80 -- Jews and slaves on the threshold of abolition : Jamaica and Barbados, 1780-1820 -- Jewish merchants and slavery in the mainland colonies -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.