This collection brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic Slavery-the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries-the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth-the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world. Key themes include: the origins and development of American slavery; work; family, gender and community; slave culture; slave economy; resistance; race and social structure and Africans and the Atlantic world.