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In the Americas, two types of racial systems developed at the confluence of migration streams from Europe and Africa. In the Caribbean, free persons of color emerged as an intermediary group between whites and large populations of Negro slaves. In British mainland colonies, whites came to treat all blacks, whether free or enslaved, mulatto or Negro, as a single social category (Hoetink 1967; Mörner 1967: 136–38).

Das traditionelle Entwicklungskonzept, das auf den modernen Sektor und Strukturanpassung setze, sei in Afrika in die Krise geraten. Ein neues Konzept solle auf lokale Entwicklung setzen; die Funktions- und Innovationsfähigkeit der lokalen Ökonomien könne man gerade an den überbordenden Städten und am informellen Sektor ablesen. Auf letzteren (und die Landwirtschaft) solle Entwicklung setzen. Die Dynamik der lokalen Ökonomien könnte zusammen mit regionaler Integration echte Entwicklung in Afrika fördern. (DÜI-Sbd)

Despite Augustine's reputation as the father of Christian intolerance, one finds in his thought the surprising claim that within non-Christian writings there are 'some truths in regard even to the worship of the One God.' The essays here uncover provocative points of comparison and similarity between Christianity and other religions to further such an Augustinian dialogue

Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus's era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an open-access Web site, incorporating newly discovered information from archives around the Atlantic world. The groundbreaking essays in this book draw on these new data to explore fundamental questions about the trade in African slaves. The research findings-that the size of the slave trade was 14 percent greater than had been estimated, that trade above and below the equator was largely separate, that ports sending out the most slave voyages were not in Europe but in Brazil, and more-challenge accepted understandings of transatlantic slavery and suggest a variety of new directions for important further research. For the most complete database on slave trade voyages ever compiled, visit www.slavevoyages.org