Most of this collection pertains to records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, while other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.

English Historical Review -"This collection comprises a significant addition to the extant histography on transatlantic slave trade and the last three essyas in paticular, which pose almost as many questions as they answer, offer some potentially useful pointers for future research."
William and Mary Quarterly - "This collection of essays fully deemonstrates that the chronology and geography of the transatlantic slave trade can now be studies in considerable detail."
International Journal of AfricanHistorical Studies
"a sensitive blend of quantitive analysis, illuminating contemporary documentaion and...a respect for the scholarship of others