Most papers in this collection explore the meaning of data on the Atlantic slave trade collected by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. Other essays supplement the quantitative analysis by examining issues relating to the ethnicity of slaves. Themes include mortality trends in the slave trade, African influences on the history of American slave societies, and how slaves reconstructed their identities outside their homeland. This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on "Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Slavery and Abolition , v.18, no.1. Paper edition (unseen), $19.50. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.