Contents: Introduction Demographic and Theoretical Perspectives African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade, Herbert S. Klein Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure, John Thornton Female Slavery, Claude Meillassoux Women in Slavery in the Western Sudan, Martin A. Klein Production and Reproduction Sustaining the System: Trading Towns along the Middle Zaire, Robert Harms The Songhay-Zarma Female Slave, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan Women in Slavery among the Mangbetu, Curtin A. Keim Slave Wives, Free Sisters, Susan Herlin Broadhead The Slave Experience: Case Histories The Story of Swema, Edward A. Alpers Post Proclamation Slavery in Accra, Claire C. Robertson Bwanikwa: Consciousness and Protest among Slave Women, Marcia Wright Women as Slave Owners, Users, & Traders Slaves, Slave Owners, and Slave Dealers, Carol P.

MacCormack A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau Region, George E. Brooks Women Slavers of Guina-Conakry, Bruce L. Mouser Servitude and Worldly Success in the Palace of Dahomey, Edna G. Bay.