First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range o

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and cons

Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance'

This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution