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TEXTS AND SOURCES: AFRICA

Konkomba (Bekpokpam), Dagomba, Gonja, Asante, Languages, Trade, Warfare, African Religion, Gold, Women, Architecture

TEXTS AND SOURCES: EUROPEANS

The Journey to the Coast, Resistance, Learning English, the Fanti, Elmina and Edina, Jacobus Capitein, Cape Coast and the British, Philip Quaque, Richard Brew, Europe in the Eighteenth Century, the Portuguese, Diseases.

TEXTS AND SOURCES: THE LOVE OF LIBERTY

Tomba, Jihad, Narratives, Resistance, Capitalism and Slavery, Criticism and Defence of the Slave Trade,  Middle Passage, Ships

TEXTS AND SOURCES: AMERICA

Brazil in the late 18th century, Bahia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Sugar and Slavery in the Bahian Reconcavo, the British Role in Brazil, Slave Resistance in Brazil and Elsewhere, African Religion and Candomble, African Culture in Brazil

TEXTS AND SOURCES: EPILOGUE

The Legacy of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Brazil Today

TEXTS AND SOURCES: ATTITUDES TO SLAVERY

Islam, Asante, Europeans, Christianity, African-British, Africans

TEXTS AND SOURCES: OTHER MATTERS

The Atlantic World, Ghana History, Ghana, the Slave Trade in Literature, Story-telling, Return from the Diaspora, Flora and Fauna.

Any historian of the slave trade is conscious of a large gap in this picture. For the slave remains an unknown warrior, invoked by moralists on both sides of the Atlantic, recalled now in museums in one-time slave ports from Liverpool to Elmina, but all the same unspeaking, and therefore remote and elusive.

Hugh Thomas

. . .  treat the sources with extreme skepticism, and freely admit that we don't have the answers to many important questions; indeed, to most of the truly important questions.

James M. Blaut