This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbe

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range o

Leading archaeologists and historians provide new studies of slavery, slave resistance and the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave tradi

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international co