The context of enslavement in West Africa : Aḥmad Bābā and the ethics of slavery / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Boiling it down : slavery on the first commercial sugarcane ingenios in the Americas (Hispaniola, 1530-45) / Lynne Guitar -- Central Africa in the era of the slave trade / John K. Thornton -- Cimarrón and citizen : African ethnicity, corporate identity, and the evolution of free black towns in the Spanish circum-Caribbean / Jane G. Landers -- Manuel's worlds : black Yucatan and the colonial Caribbean / Matthew Restall -- Los esclavos de su magestad : slave protest and politics in late colonial New Granada / Renée Soulodre-La France -- "The defects of being a black creole" : the degrees of African identity in the Cuban Cabildos de Nación, 1790-1820 / Matt D. Childs -- Cantos and quilombos : a Hausa rebellion in Bahia, 1814 / Stuart B. Schwartz -- "The fruit of freedom" : slaves and citizens in early republican Argentina / Seth Meisel