The Atlantic Slave Trade

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Why Were Africans Enslaved?	p. 1
Economics, Not Racism, as the Root of Slavery	p. 2
The Cultural Roots of African Slavery	p. 7
Ideas and Institutions from the Old World	p. 13
European and African Cultural Differences	p. 20
The Slave Trade Within Africa	p. 27
West Africa in the 1790s	p. 28
African Narratives of Enslavement	p. 34
West Central Africa	p. 39
Guns for Slaves	p. 45
Warfare and Slavery	p. 49
The Middle Passage	p. 55
An African's Ordeal	p. 56
An Abolitionist's Evidence	p. 60
A Historian's Recount	p. 70
Profits and Losses	p. 76
The Achievements of the "Numbers Game"	p. 81
Effects in Africa	p. 87
An Alliance to Raid for Slaves	p. 88
The Unequal Partnership Between Africans and Europeans	p. 89
Social and Demographic Transformations	p. 97
Africa's Effects on the Slave Trade	p. 110
Effects in the Americas and Europe	p. 119
The African Roots of American Rice	p. 120
Problems with the "Black Rice" Thesis	p. 126
Slavery, Industrialization, and Abolition	p. 132
Morality, Economics, and Abolition	p. 139
Africans and Abolition	p. 147
Questioning Slavery's Morality	p. 148
Black Abolitionists	p. 153
African Opponents of Abolition	p. 160
Slave Revolts and the End of Slavery	p. 164
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 177
Maps
Western Africas c. 1640-1750	p. xvi
The Americas in the Era of the Slave Trade	p. 118
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