Authoritative history of the Atlantic Slave Trade, comprising over 100 essays by academic experts in four hardback volumes. SOLD AS A SET. Volume I Origins to 1600: Covering the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the essays in this collection look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom, slavery in Africa, the development of the slave trade, the demographic situation in Latin America and European attitudes to slavery as an institution. 422pp.Volume II Seventeenth Century: The essays in this volume discuss the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade, the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet - particularly the rise of the sugar economy. 496pp.Volume III Eighteenth Century: The eighteenth century saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade. This volume contains essays which examine the commercial and financial structure of the British slave trade, the contribution of other European countries to the trade and the effects of the trade on West and West Central Africa. 558pp.Volume IV Nineteenth Century: The essays collected in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of slavery itself. They examine the rise of the abolitionist move-ment in different countries and how the move towards abolition was swifter in some areas than others. Attention is also paid to the economic consequences of abolition, popular attitudes to abolition and the role of the Church. 496pp. UK. ASHGATE.

New Edition. A clear, general account of the African Slave Trade describing the political and historical background of East and West Africa and the consequences of the trade on the development of each region. Includes a reading guide. First published in 1961 as Black Mother. Index, 304pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852557981

Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England, and then examines the opposition to Empire, the promotion of Empire and the question of slavery. The author's discussion on slavery has a larger scope ranging from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond to the legal abolition of slavery in the British Empire, the United States and elsewhere in the nineteenth century.xviii, 268pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

New in paperback. Includes the following essays: I Am Not Abeeda: Surviving Ten Years of Slavery in Sudan by A. Bak; Rescue by Email: The Desperate Plight of an Au Pair in Cairo by S. Juma; Amazing Grace in Mauritania: A Slave Owner's Awakening by A. Nasser Ould Yessa. 240pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Eminent scholars and opinion leaders give fresh insights into how the slave trade and slavery are remembered and commemorated - or suppressed - as part of the national identity in the three continents forever connected by the legacies of the triangular trade. Contributions from: Samir Amin, Ama Ata Aidoo, Hilary Beckles, Barryl Biekman & Alex van Stipriaan, Allison Blakely, Ian Buruma, Ina Césaire, Patrick Chamoiseau, Adriaan van Dis, Seymour Drescher, Lowell Fiet, Flavio dos Santos Gomes, Hary Goulbourne, Frank Martinus Arion, Carl Niehaus, Olu Oguibe, Gert Oostindie, Pedro Perez-Lopez, Richard Price, James Walvin & Nigel Worden. pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852554621

Slavery has existed and continues to exist in various forms over centuries of world history. This dictionary describes themes and concepts surrounding the issues of the trade as well as the impact of individuals and institutions in both the safeguarding of slavery and its abolition. Bib, xxiii, 348pp, USA. SCARECROW, 0810841029

The author's concern is primarily with the role of the environment in history, particularly the disease environment. In the tropical Atlantic, disease was a crucial factor in the formation of the slave trade, affecting both the involuntary passengers and those who came from Europe to manage the trade. 350pp, UK. ASHGATE.

Draws on the extensive collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. It explores the richness of the Museum's collections and highlights the unique insights they provide into the histories and legacies of slavery, the slave trade and abolition from the mid-sixteenth until the early twentieth centuries. Collections of art, artefacts and archives are examined across more than 600 entries, with many objects illustrated in print for the first time. Ten specially commissioned essays by leading scholars set the collections in their historical context, demonstrating the scale and brutality of slavery, the nature and extent of African resistance, and the wide-spread efforts to achieve abolition and emancipation. 196 illus, 320pp, UK. LUND HUMPHRIES.

As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own historical narrative, the two layers of this account of the Atlantic slave trade enable us to understand the rise and fall of one of the great crimes of British history, the repercussions of which the modern world is still experiencing. 272pp, UK. PENGUIN.

This volume brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery - the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries - from the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world. Key themes include: The origins and development of American slavery; Work; Family, gender and community; Slave culture; Slave economy and material culture; Resistance; Race and social structure; Africans in the Atlantic world. xvi, 800 pages. notes, index. UK. ROUTLEDGE.

The Romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth century British culture. Among the most significant was the change it wrought to insular Britons' ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel slavery. The author presents a fully historicised and theorised account of the intimate relationship between slavery, African exploration, and the Romantic imagination. Index, bib, notes, b/w illus, xii, 296pp, USA. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Examines how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of Bristol, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previ-ously been acknowledged. B/w illus, notes, bib, index, UK. CONTINUUM, 0826448763 PB

2001 paperback

Slavery remains rampant worldwide, despite the celebrations surrounding the bicentenary of its abolition in Britain. At least 27m men, women and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This popularly written but carefully researched volume includes a chapter on different forms of contemporary slavery, a chapter on the Christian roots of the anti-slavery movement, and three detailed case studies, on Sudan, Burma and Uganda. 184pp, UK. MONARCH BOOKS.

Until now, no single collection has focused on female slaves who probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old, concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as wives and nieces, taken into African families and kin-groups in subtly nuanced fashion. Contributors: Sharifa Ahjum, Richard B. Allen, Katrin Bromber, Gwyn Campbell, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Timothy Fernyhough, Philip J. Havik, Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan, Martin A. Klein, George Michael La Rue, Paul E. Lovejoy, Fred Morton, Richard Roberts and Kirsten A. Seaver. Index, 399pp, USA. OHIO U P.

Until now, no single collection has focused on female slaves who probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old, concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as wives and nieces, taken into African families and kin-groups in subtly nuanced fashion. Contributors: Henrice Altink, Laur-ence Brown, Myriam Cottias, Laura F. Edwards, Richard Follett, Tara Inniss, Barbara Krau-thamer, Joseph C. Miller, Bernard Moitt, Kenneth Morgan, Claire Robertson, Marsha Robinson, Felipe Smith and Mariza de Carvalho Soares. Index, 329pp, USA. OHIO U P.