Introduction 11The experts were also requested to consider the consequences of the
abolition of the slave trade in Africa itself, in Europe and in the receiving
countries.
New lines of researchThe experts were requested to bring together under this heading all the recom-
mendations concerning the pursuit of research into the slave trade which arose
out of the discussions. In particular, they were to : (a) list the sources of archives
still to be published; (b) suggest forms and directions which further research
might take; and (c) put foward suggestions on ways of setting up a system
for the exchange of information, researchers and teachers and, when appro-
priate, students, between universities in the region (Caribbean and the Ameri-
cas) and Africa.
Working papersThe working papers are grouped in four sections in Part I of this book. The
first section contains contributions by S. U. Abramova and Michèle Duchet
on ideological and political aspects of the slave trade. In the second section,
Joseph E. Inikori deals with the effects of the slave trade on the Atlantic econ-
omies; José Luciano Franco examines the slave trade in the Caribbean and
Latin America; Oruno D. Lara discusses Negro resistance to slavery and
F. Latour da Veiga Pinto, assisted by Antonio Carreira, examines the effects
of Portugal's participation in the slave trade on Portuguese society and the
country's socio-economic development.
The third and fourth sections deal with the slave trade within Africa
itself and in other parts of the world. Mbaye Gueye shows how European
participation in the slave trade caused it to swell to huge proportions and
discusses the subsequent effects on the internal slave trade. I. B. Kake points
out that the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East had been transfer-
ring black populations to their territories long before Europeans began trading
in slaves and shows how this population drain developed from the fifteenth to
the end of the nineteenth century. Population movements between East Africa,
the Horn of Africa and the neighbouring countries are examined by Bethwell
A. Ogot, and Hubert Gerbeau discusses research to be undertaken on the slave
trade in the Indian Ocean.
Part I ends with the summary report of the meeting of experts and recom-
mendations for future action.
Part II of the book contains additional papers which participants were
asked to submit, describing research on the slave trade being carried out in
various countries. These papers contain mainly bibliographical data, details of