Editorial Staff
Preface
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	3
Acknowledgments	6
Foreword
David Brion Davis and Robert P. Forbes	7
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A New Census
Barbara L. Solow	9
The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment
David Eltis	17
African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic
G. Ugo Nwokeji	47
Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
David Richardson	69
Transoceanic Mortality: The Slave Trade in Comparative Perspective
Herbert S. Klein, Stanley L. Engerman, Robin Haines, and Ralph Shlomowitz	93
The French Slave Trade: An Overview
David Geggus	119
The Chesapeake Slave Trade: Regional Patterns, African Origins, and Some Implications
Lorena S. Walsh	139
Markets, Transaction Cycles, and Profits: Merchant Decision Making in the British Slave Trade
Stephen D. Behrendt	171
The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655–1788
Trevor Burnard and Kenneth Morgan	205
The Slave Trade as History and Memory: Confrontations of Slaving Voyage Documents and Communal Traditions
Ralph A. Austen	229
Considering the Slave Trade: History and Memory
Bernard Bailyn	245

Reviews of Books

Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas.
By Stephanie E. Smallwood	253
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM, ed. Eltis, Behrendt, Richardson, and Klein.
By Stephanie E. Smallwood	253
Teaching the Literatures of Early America, ed. Mulford.
By Ivy T. Schweitzer	261
Scanlan, Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671: Allegories of Desire.
By Peter Hulme	270
Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida.
By Daniel C. Littlefield	272
Din, Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803.
By Jennifer M. Spear	276
Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776.
By Ruth H. Bloch	278
Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America.
By Marilyn C. Baseler	282
Baseler, Asylum for Mankind : America, 1607–1800.
By Anita Tien	285
Hoffman and Mason, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782.
By Richard S. Dunn	288
Onuf, Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood.
By James T. Kloppenberg	291
Gardner, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845.
By Dana D. Nelson	294
Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans.
By Paul E. Johnson	296
Hodges, Slavery, Freedom, and Culture among Early American Workers.
By Michele Gillespie	300

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