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In order to promote a fuller exchange of views during the meeting, each partici-
pant was requested to submit, in the space of a few pages, the following:
An account of research in his country, to include: a bibliography, including theses;
work in progress; areas of research to be explored and gaps to be filled; a
list, with addresses, of national and foreign specialists working on the problems
of the slave trade.
Statistics on the slave trade.
Principal ports or trading-posts in Africa, serving as outlets to America or to
the countries of the Indian Ocean, and in the receiving countries.
A list of archives (public archives in North America, Latin America, the Carib-
bean, Europe and Asia; private archives (individuals or families, commercial
firms, churches, etc.).
The role and impact of slaves: economic—contribution to the development of the
receiving country (e.g. the sugar industry, the coffee industry, etc.) ; cultural—
the African influence, through slavery, on many countries of the Western
hemisphere; political—the participation of Negroes in the social and political
strife and the wars of independence of the receiving countries, and in the
building of new nations.
The reports submitted are reproduced below and arranged alphabetically by
author.