Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on sources and secondary literature

1.Peculiar institution? The phenomenon of modern slavery
1.1 Slavery: Attempt of a preliminary definition
1.2 Notions of slavery in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
1.3 Renovation of slavery at the outset of the Modern Era

2.Yearning for wealth and power: Colonial slavery as an economic institution
2.1 The colonial enterprise
2.2 "Those valuable People''
2.3 Greed and diligence

3.Yearning for order and stability: Colonial slavery as a social institution
3.1 Uneasy transfer to modernity
3.2 Order and hierarchy
3.3 Many faces of liberty

4.The perfect tool? The image of "the Negro" within American colonization projects
4.1 Stereotypes of Africa
4.2 Preordained to work
4.3 Strangers within

5.African slavery in the New World as a means of social-religious reform
5.1 Missionaries and slavery
5.2 The Society of Jesus
       The Capuchin case
5.3.The Moravian Church

Conclusion: The end of slaving Utopias
Bibliography

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