December 2006
Articles, Essays, and Reports
From Huts to Barracóns in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Plantations
Lisette Roura Alvarez
On the Transportation of Material Goods by Enslaved Africans During the Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings from Documentary Sources
Jerome S. Handler
Slave Routes in Western Tanzania: A Preliminary Report on Survey in Tabora and Ujiji
Sarah Croucher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones
Tikettin yat familia/Once upon a Family: Family Origins and Slave Histories in Southern Morocco
Madia Thomson
Dissertation Abstracts
Strategic Consumption: Archaeological Evidence for Costly Signaling among Enslaved Men and Women
in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
Jillian E. Galle
The Dynamics of Industry as Seen from Van Winkle's Mill, Arkansas
Alicia B. Valentino
News and Announcements
Caribbean Grave Site Illuminates Slavery
Mat Probasco
In Search of Skeletons
Elizabeth Redden
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
U.N. Secretary-General
Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
Nick Tattersall
Announcements
New Books
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance
R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage
Conference
Call for Papers
Book Reviews
Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia
Douglas B. Chambers and Gloria Chuku