Contents -- Maps -- Tables and Figures -- Translation of a Slave Inventory -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Part 1. Africa: Births and Deaths -- Chapter 1: The People of Western Central Africa -- Chapter 2: The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation -- Chapter 3: Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa -- Chapter 4: The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export -- Chapter 5: The Demography of Slaving -- Part 2. Traders: On the Way -- Chapter 6: Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector -- Chapter 7: A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 8: Casualties of Merchant Capital: The Luso-Africans in Angola -- Chapter 9: The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda -- Chapter 10: Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians -- Chapter 11: Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death -- Part 3. Brazil: The Last Stop -- Chapter 12: Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Slave Trade to the 1770s -- Chapter 13: Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780-1810 -- Chapter 14: Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century -- Part 4. Portugal: Merchants of Death -- Chapter 15: The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760 -- Chapter 16: "Freedom of Trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772 -- Chapter 17: The Dry Well, 1772-1810 -- Chapter 18: Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810-1830 -- Part 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 19: The Economics of Mortality.

Appendix A: Comparative Estimates of Basic Labor Rations -- Appendix B: Estimate of Mortality among Slaves Awaiting Sale in the New World -- Appendix C: Principal Authors of Documentation Cited -- Glossary of Foreign Terms Used in the Text -- Glossary of Portuguese Terms Used in the Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.