1. provide an overview of the structure and volume of the transatlantic slave trade and the numbers of people it involved; 2. describe the practices of slave-raiding, slave-trading and slave-owning in selected pre-colonial West African states;3. explain why the slave trade was abolished; 4. analyse slaves’ experience of the `middle passage’; 5. explain the economics of plantation slavery, and explore the social and cultural life of slaves on selected Caribbean islands; 6. analyse slave rebellions on selected Caribbean islands.