Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311)
The slave trade and the numbers game : a review of the literature -- Distribution in space : the Hispanic trade -- Distribution in space : the colonies of the North Europeans -- Distribution through time : the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries -- The English slave trade of the eighteenth century -- The French slave trade of the eighteenth century -- Main currents of the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The slave trade of the nineteenth century -- Major trends -- A postscript on mortality