Table of Contents

The ideological context in Europe and the colonies: the Iberian roots of American racist thought, James H. Sweet; the origins debate - slavery and racism in 17th-century Virginia, Alden T. Vaughan. Coerced labour in Europe: the causes of slavery or serfdom - a hypothesis, Evsey D. Domar; the old world background to European colonial slavery, Robin Blackburn. Coerced labour in the Americas and Africa: the persistence of Indian slavery and encomienda in the northeast of colonial Mexico, 1577-1723, Jose Cuello. "Our suffering with the Taxco tribute" - involuntary mine labour and indigenous society in central New Spain, Robert S. Haskett. Slave control and slave resistance in colonial Minas Gerais, 1700-1750, Julio Pinto Vallejos; from servants to slaves - the transformations of the Chesapeake labour system, Russell R. Menard; African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the upper Guinea coast in the context of the Atlantic slave-trade, Walter Rodney; slaves and society in western Africa, c.1445-c.1700, J.D. Fage; agricultural slavery in the northern colonies and in classical Athens - some comparisons, Vincent J. Rosivach; conditions of labour, culture and resistance: black women's work and the evolution of plantation society in Virginia, Carole Shammas; from Creole to African - Atlantic creoles and the origins of African-American society in mainland North America, Ira Berlin; Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose - a free black town in Spanish colonial Florida, Jane Landers.