New essays using innovative approaches and methods to advance research on the Atlantic World idea: that the slave trade created one world where before there were many. The organisation of this collection of essays reflects an important structural feature of the slave trade itself: its circularity, beginning in Africa, coming to the Americas and eventually returning to Africa. The volume is separated into three parts, analysing firstly the slave trade in its African roots before considering questions of ethnic identity, religion and creolisation in the American continent. 312pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Focusing on the stories passed down from generation to generation among the Anlo Ewe community in southern Ghanaian area once known as the Slave Coast, this offers a noteworthy, carefully researched contribution to the study of the African slave trade. Few accounts in the copious literature have adequately addressed the African viewpoint, says Bailey, and the oral histories she offers are designed to correct that silence. Index, bib, notes, 289pp, JAMAICA. IAN RANDLE PUBLISHERS.

In 1839 the people transported from Sierra Leone on the slave ship Amistad revolted. This volume looks at the long term political and social consequences of the uprising and its significance on both sides of the Atlantic. Index, notes, xvii, 180pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS, 0820324655

The Caribbean has served as a crucible of major intellectual movements of black resistance and empowerment. These essays look at the legacy of mass transportation from Africa and decades of slavery on the Caribbean and the enduring bonds between Africa and the diaspora. Some of the essays are in French. Index, refs, 213pp, ERITREA/USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 0865439540

An overview of the Atlantic Slave Trade delving into the issues of the capture of slaves, the identities of the enslaved and their lives after capture, the economics of the slave trade, the struggle to end slavery and its legacy. Also includes biographies of key individuals, 13 primary documents, a timeline and an annotated bibliography. BNS, USA. GREENWOOD PRESS, 031331862X

A study of the centrality of slavery and the slave trade in the history of the United States, the Americas and the world. The author focuses on the year 1819 to explain how an explosive conflict over the expansion and legitimacy of slavery pointed towards revolutionary changes in American culture. Index, 115pp, USA. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0674011821

A collection of twelve essays looking at the unexplored topic of the transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil. The essays are organised into three major parts looking first at the Portuguese Brazilian slave trade. The second part examines the impact of western African on the making of colonial and post independence Brazil while the third part explores the effects of Brazil and Afro Brazilians on western Africa. Index, bib, gloss, notes, 323pp, USA. HUMANITY, 1591021537

Focused on West Africa, these essays examine the defensive, protective, and offensive strategies of individual families, communities and states against the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade. Index, notes, bib, xxvii, 242pp, USA. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet, the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. This account, by distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller, proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. It represents the first comprehensive examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Miller offers a historical introduction to the cultural and economic dynamics of the French slave trade, and he shows how Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau ignored it.He follows the twists and turns of attitude regarding the slave trade through the works of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French writers, including Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Stael, Madame de Duras, Prosper Merimee, and Eugene Sue. Index, bib, b/w illus, 571pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The British debate over the abolition of the slave trade related not only to the sufferings of those who were enslaved and transported from Africa, but also to its implications for those who remained behind on the African continent. Abolitionists regularly argued that the slave trade had distorted and stunted the development of African societies. Likewise, the recent campaign for the payment of reparations for the slave trade has commonly involved a demand for compensa-tion to be paid to Africa, as well as (or rather than) to the descendants of the transported slaves, and has often presented the slave trade as one of the major historical causes of the poverty and underdevelopment of modern Africa. The lecture considers this issue in the light of the most recent scholarship on the history of Africa, with particular emphasis on the demographic and economic consequences of the slave trade. 36pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

Nine essays that indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across the Atlantic forged diverse and vibrant reinventions and reinterpretations of the rich mix of cultures represented by Africans and peoples of African descent on both continents. Notes, index. 160pp. UK. FRANK CASS.

An examination of the development of the English Atlantic slave system between 1650 and 1800. It outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. Index, sources, maps, app, notes, xvii, 353pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 052165548X

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A history of slavery during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Western Sudan, Senegal and French Guinea. The author investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. BNS, index, notes, bib, b/w illus, maps, notes, 278pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An analysis of the complex institution of slavery in Africa, looking at how slaves were understood in a social context and how they interacted with their owners and families. The authors also describe the spectrum of different forms of dependency and clientage relationships. Index, bib, apps, xvi, 213pp, SWITZERLAND. P. SCHLETTWEIN PUBLISHING.

The richly illustrated story of a typical slave ship and its last voyage on the triangular trade between Nordic countries, West Africa and the Caribbean. Includes an account of the discovery of the ship by the author. By examining surviving evidence (including the captain's log), he reconstructs the ships journey in day to day detail. 64 b/w and 93 colour illus, 240pp, JAMAICA. IAN RANDLE PUBLISHERS.

The ideologies of race and colour that the slave system spawned in the 16th century that featured colonial societies built around notions of white supremacy and black inferiority continue to haunt human relations more than a century after emancipation. Denial and silence, further-more, have meant that the true nature of this human tragedy has not been scientifically evaluated and assessed. This text, like its companion, Saving Souls, tries to make sense of the silence and denial even as it seeks to break it. Bib, B/w illus, 115pp, JAMAICA. IAN RANDLE PUBLISHERS.

Surveys archaeological data from West Africa, examining sites ranging from the Senegambia to the Cameroon. The focus is on the archaeological record of the past 500 years, and the intention is to complement historical research based on documentary records and oral history. BNS, 51 b/w maps, photos and drawings, 288pp, UK. LEICESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Leading scholars of slavery and post-slavery societies bring their research into a global, cross-cultural focus. This is a Pan-Caribbean, multi-theme volume of interest to students on courses in Caribbean/ Atlantic World History and to all engaged in the project of recovering Caribbean history. It examines economic activity, labour history, domestic slavery, labour resistance and rebellion from the 17th to the 20th-century, and includes work on emancipation and wider diasporic issues. 400pp, JAMAICA. IAN RANDLE PUBLISHERS.