Contents
Introduction 9
Part I: Working papers and summary report
Ideological and political aspects of the African slave trade
Ideological, doctrinal, philosophical, religious and political aspects of
the African slave trade, S. U. Abramova 16
Reactions to the problem of the slave trade : an historical and ideological
study, Michèle Duchet 31
The Atlantic slave trade
The slave trade and the Atlantic economies 1451-1870,
Joseph E. Inikori 56
The slave trade in the Caribbean and Latin America,
José Luciano Franco 88
y. Negro resistance to slavery and the Atlantic slave trade from Africa to
Black America, Oruno D. Lara 101
Portuguese participation in the slave trade : opposing forces, trends
of opinion with Portuguese society, effects on Portugal's socio-
economic development, Françoise Latour da Veiga Pinto, assisted
by A. Carreira 119
The slave trade within Africa and between Africa and the Middle East
^The slave trade within the African continent, Mbaye Gueye 150
The slave trade and the population drain from Black Africa to North
Africa and the Middle East, /. B. Kake 164
Population movements between East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the
neighbouring countries, Bethwell A. Ogot 175The slave trade in the Indian Ocean
The slave trade in the Indian Ocean: problems facing the historian and
research to be undertaken, Hubert Gerbeau 184