Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...

Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note on spelling and dating -- Introduction -- England's Jewish merchants and the slave trade -- Jews and slaves in seventeenth-century Barbados and ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...