From chains to bonds : the slave trade revisited / edited by Doudou Di ene.

A collection of 38 papers from the Ouidah Conference held in September 1994 in Ouidah, Benin as the launching conference for UNESCO's international Slave Route Project.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Nicephore Soglo -- 'The Body of Memory' / Mohammed Kacimi -- From the Slave Trade to the Challenge of Development: Reflections on the Conditions for World Peace / Doudou Diene -- Popularisation of the History of the Slave Trade / Ibrahima Baba Kake -- 1. Women, Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Black Africa during the Precolonial Period / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- 2. The Travel and Transport of Slaves / Mame-Kouna Tondut-Sene -- 3. The Transition from the Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce / Robin Law -- 4. Submarine Archaeology and the History of the Slave Trade / Max Guerout -- 5. Origins of the Slaves in the Lima Region in Peru (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) / Jean-Pierre Tardieu -- 6. Returning Afro-Brazilians / Bellarmin C. Codo -- 7. The Slave Trade to Russia / Dieudonne Gnammankou -- 8. From the Slave Trade to Underdevelopment / Yves Benot -- 9. The Unmeasured Hazards of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Sources, Causes and Historiographical Implications / Joseph E. Inikori -- 10. The Slave Trade and the Demographic Evolution of Africa / Patrick Manning -- 11. The Mental Route of the Slave: A Few Thoughts Inspired by the Present-Day Situation of the Black Peoples / Joseph Ki-Zerbo -- 12. The Conditions of Slaves in the Americas / Paul E. Lovejoy -- 13. Slavery and Society in the Caribbean (1900-1930) / Francisco Lopez Segrera -- 14. The Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery: Historical Foundations / Joseph C. Miller -- 15. The Liberated Slaves and the Question of the Return to Africa: Interaction along the Upper Guinea Coast / Florence Omolara Mahoney -- 16. Former African and Malagasy Freed Slaves: Comprehensive Listing and Conclusions / Norbert Benoit -- 17. Slavery in Law Codes / Lluis Sala-Molins -- 18. The Incomplete Past of Slavery: The African Heritage in the Social Reality, Subconsciousness and Imagination of Guadeloupe / Dany Bebel-Gisler -- 19. From the Slave Trade to the 'Screening' of Immigrants / Hagen Kordes -- 20. The Slave's World of the Imagination: Outline of the Foundations of Caribbean Thought / Hugues Liborel-Pochot -- 21. Slaves and Slavery in the Study of Fon Proverbs in Benin / Jean-Norbert Vignonde -- 22. Some Remarks on the Christian Churches and the Atlantic Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century / Alphonse Quenum -- 23. The Abolitions of Slavery (1793, 1794, 1848): Overview of a Symposium / Marcel Dorigny -- 24. The All-Americas/All-American African Diaspora / Sheila S. Walker -- 25. The Role of Africa and Blacks in the Building of the Americas: Focus on Colombia / Nina S. de Friedemann -- 26. The African Presence in Brazil / Kabengele Munanga -- 27. Influence of African Art on American Art / Joseph C.E. Adande -- 28. Resilience and Transformation in Varieties of African Musical Elements in Latin America / Kazadi wa Mukuna -- 29. African Survivals in the Secular Popular Culture of the Americas / Yolande Behanzin-Joseph-Noel -- 30. Survivals and Dynamism of African Cultures in the Americas / Olabiyi B. Yai -- 31. African Religions in the Americas: A Structural Analysis / Guerin C. Montilus -- 32. The Persistence of Clan Identities among Slaves through the Vodun and Orisha Religious Cults / Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt -- 33. The Influence of Black in the Americas / Luz Maria Martinez-Montiel -- 34. Towards the Pedagogy of the History of the Slave Trade / Jean-Michel Deveau -- 35. Slavery, Genocide or Holocaust? / Roger Some -- 36. Diasporas, Multiculturalism and Solidarity in the Caribbean / Julie Lirus-Galap -- 37. The Slave Trade and Cultural Tourism / Clement Koudessa Lokossou -- 38. The Slave Route to the Rio de la Plata: From the Slave Trade to the Contemporary Cultural Dialogue / Nilda Beatriz Anglarill.

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