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Between 1760 and 1820, there were many changes that occurred in Europe and United States in terms of land ownership, conflict between peoples, and, most importantly, slave trade. After the American Revolution, the United states was able to further expand because of its freedom from Britain. Also, the allies of the US gained back land that they had previously lost to Britain before the war when the colonies were rapidly expanding. Many other countries and their respective colonies broke out into civil war and revolutions, resulting in massive reformation in North America and Europe. The French Revolution occurring shortly after the American Revolution as well as the Latin American wars of Independence continued the conflict among these European nations, and then led to many different treaties being made to monitor slave trade among each of the different countries. After these revolutions, slavery rapidly expanded, but by 1825, the US and Britain outlawed their Atlantic slave trade and had made treaties with other countries such as France, Holland, Spain, and Portugal that made the only legal slave trade be South of the Equator, in transportation of slaves to Brazil. Needless to say there were many illegal trade routes still going on and flourished for years.
As Thomas points out in his post, the division in the US was only made worse by this continuing of slave trade. The North had limited its use of slaves where as the South only relied on it more for production and making a profit, causing an even bigger divide in the newly found nation.
Davis really covers a lot of boundaries in this reading; he does not only focus on one revolution, one certain area and what happened but the broad spectrum of events that occur simultaneously and how slavery and slave trade was affected throughout all of these processes. He also incorporates the many cause and effect scenarios that led to the redistribution of land to all of the countries involved in the many revolutions because of alliances and treaties made.