Contents

pp v-vi

Preface to the second edition

pp vii-viii

Abbreviations

pp ix-ix

Maps

pp x-xiv

Source notes for Maps 1–3

pp xv-xxxvi

Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800

pp xxxvii-xxxviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Africans in Africa

pp 11-12

1 - The birth of an Atlantic world

pp 13-42

2 - The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans

pp 43-71

3 - Slavery and African social structure

pp 72-97

4 - The process of enslavement and the slave trade

pp 98-126

Part II - Africans in the New World

pp 127-128

5 - Africans in colonial Atlantic societies

pp 129-151

6 - Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labor

pp 152-182

7 - African cultural groups in the Atlantic world

pp 183-205

8 - Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world

pp 206-234

9 - African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world

pp 235-271

10 - Resistance, runaways, and rebels

pp 272-303

11 - Africans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

pp 304-334

Index

pp 335-340