CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. The Slave Trade and the Numbers Game: A Review of the Literature -- 2. Distribution in Space: The Hispanic Trade -- 3. Distribution in Space: The Colonies of the North Europeans -- 4. Distribution through Time: The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries -- 5. The English Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century -- 6. The French Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century -- 7. Main Currents of the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade -- 8. The Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century -- 9. Major Trends -- 10. A Postscript on Mortality -- Appendix: Koelle's Linguistic Inventory -- Bibliography -- Index.