Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental and African Slave Trades

List of plates List of figures List of maps Acknowledgements Prologue: tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery 1. The political economy of slavery in Africa 2. Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 3. Slavery and the African population: a demographic model 4. The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900 5. The economics and morality of slave supply 6. Patterns of slave life 7. Transformations of slavery and society, 1650-1900 8. The end of slavery 9. The world and Africa Appendix 1: slave prices Appendix 2: the demographic simulation Notes bibliography Index.