Introduction; African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the upper Guinea coast in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, Walter Rodney; African societies and the Atlantic slave trade, J.D. Fage; 'Here is no resisting the country': the realities of power in Afro-European relations on the west African 'slave coast', Robin Law; Hunting for rents: the economics of slaving in pre-colonial Africa, E.W. Evans and David Richardson; Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in 17th-century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry; The French slave trade: an overview, David Geggus; The economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies, 1640-80: a tentative analysis of the Barbados model, H. Beckles; The economics of transition to the black labor system in Barbados, 1630-80, H. Beckles and A. Downes; Trade, plunder and economic development in early English Jamaica, 1655-89, Nuada Zahedieh: Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica, 1674-1708, T. Burnard; 'To procure negroes': the English slave trade to Barbados, 1627-60, Larry Gragg; 'The countrie continues sicklie': white mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780, T. Burnard; The passion to exist: slave rebellions in the British West Indies, 1650-1832, M. Craton; The influence of disease on race, logistics and colonization in the Antilles, F. Guerra; The profitability of sugar planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834, J.R. Ward; The first American boom: Virginia, 1618 to 1630, Edmund S. Morgan; From servants to slaves: the transformation of the Chesapeake labor system, Russell Menard; The tobacco industry in the Chesapeake colonies, 1617-1730: an interpretation, Russell Menard; The origins debate: slavery and racism in 17th-century Virginia, Alden T. Vaughan; The English sugar islands and the founding of South Carolina, Richard S. Dunn; Black and mulatto brotherhoods in colonial Brazil: a study in collective behaviour, A.J.R. Russell-Wood.
