T. Cary Johnson Jr. Professor of History, U. of Virginia; author, Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola (Clarendon, 1976); Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 (U. Wisconsin Press, 1988); co-editor, Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (Macmillan, 1998); comp., Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography (M.E. Sharpe, 1999)