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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 | ... MORE
| 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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