Deals with the seventeenth-century development of the Atlantic slave trade. This work is related to changes in European diet, particularly the rise of the sugar economy. It also offers an assessment of the impact of the slave trade on Africa.

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.