Contents: Introduction; Slave exports from west and west-central Africa, 1700–1810: new estimates of volume and distribution, David Richardson; Price of slaves in west and west-central Africa: toward an annual series, 1698–1807, David Richardson; King Agaja of Dahomey, the slave trade, and the question of west African plantations: the mission of Bulfinch Lambe and Adomo Tomo to England, 1726–32, R. Law; Whitehaven and the 18th-century British slave trade, D. Richardson and M.M. Schofield; The commercial and financial organisation of the British slave trade, 1750–1807, Richard Sheridan; Market structure and the profits of the British African trade in the late 18th century, Joseph E. Inikori; Profitability of the British trade in slaves once again, William Darity, jr.; Productivity in the transatlantic slave trade, David Eltis and David Richardson; Evidence on English-African terms of trade in the 18th century, Henry A. Gemery, Jan S. Hogendorn, and Marion Johnson; Characteristics of British slaving vessels, 1698–1775, W. Minchinton; The world an absentee planter and his slaves made: Sir William Stapleton and his Nevis sugar estate, 1722–40, Keith Mason; Prodigious riches: the wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution, T. Burnard; The condition of the slaves and economic development of the British Windward Islands, 1765–75, R.B. Sheridan; Measuring the French slave trade, 1713–92/3, Robert Stein; The French sugar business in the 18th century: a quantitative study, Robert Stein; Profitability of slave and long-distance trading in context: the case of 18th-century France, Guillaume Daudin; A reassessment of the Dutch Atlantic slave trade, Johannes Postma; The history of the Danish negro slave trade, 1733–1807, Svend Erik Green-Pedersen; World's apart: Africans' encounters and Africa's encounters with the Atlantic in Angola, before 1800, J.C. Miller; The cacao economy of the 18th-century province of Caracas and the Spanish cacao market, E. Piñero; Social protest and labour bargaining: the changing nature of slaves' responses to plantation life in 18th century Barbados, H. Beckles and K. Watson; Le Cat and the physiology of negroes, G.S. Rousseau; Index.