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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Promises and Predicaments of the Long Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World -- Chapter 2: Pirates, Slaves, and Profligate Rogues: Sailors of Color in the Eighteenth-Century Maritime World -- Establishing the Debate -- Dampier's Voyage and the Economy of Enslavement -- Abraham Samuel: The King of Madagascar -- Julian, Quintor, and the Fantasy of Archival Hope -- Chapter 3: "Commencing Merchant": Forms of Feeling and Logics of Capital in Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) -- Logics of Capital -- Forms of Feeling -- Conclusion: Feeling "English" -- Chapter 4: "Peruvia's Bleeding Land": Bodyscape Commerce in Helen Maria Williams's Peru -- Bodyscape Commerce: Allegory, Peruvia, and Potosí -- Imperialist Theater: Romance, Seduction, and "Guilty Treasures" -- Empire Personified: Imperial Iberia and Bleeding Peruvia -- "Peruvia's Rifled Bosom" -- Theater of Empire: Williams's Allegory and the Geographic Imagination -- Chapter 5: Religion, Sexuality, and Antislavery Resistance: The Hart Sisters and Mary Prince in the Atlantic World -- Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert: Methodism, Sex, and Antislavery Activity in the Atlantic World -- Slavery, Evangelicalism, and the Limits of Black Female Resistance in The History of Mary Prince -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: "A Cure, Both for Soul and Body": Transculturation in Robinson Crusoe's Tobacco "Application" -- Smoking Tobacco -- Selling Tobacco -- Conclusion: Text as Drug -- Chapter 7: "One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure": Counterfeit Coins and Imperial Commerce in 1770s Jamaica -- Introduction -- The Tale of the False Doubloons -- A Nest of Quarrels -- Some Causes -- Interdependent Economies. Fears of Ending the Boom of 1770-1771 -- Imperial Geography, Local and Remote -- Deference and Clientage -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Currency, Credit, and Trust: Naval Victualing at the Cape Colony, 1795-1815 -- Feeding the Fleet: Alexander Farquhar's Victualing Agency, 1797-1800 -- Accounting for Labor: William Maude's Agency, 1800-1803 -- Prices and Payments: William Robertson's Agency, January-October 1806 -- Further Inquiries: Cape Station Victualing Post-1806 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Epilogue: Reimagining the Edge of Transatlantic Commerce as Center -- Transatlantic World-Making in The Female American -- Colonial Mapping and Commerce -- The Human in Transatlantic Commerce -- The Stories Transatlantic Commerce Tells-Reimagining the Edge -- Bibliography -- Index.