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When OUP published the first edition of this work in 1986, reviews in leading journals of different fields (US and Latin American history, business history, African history) praised it as 'an elegant and balanced synthesis', 'the first modern comprehensive comparative study of the experience of African slaves in the Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking regions of America', 'by far the best summary available, in any language', 'indispensable to serious students', the 'best introduction to the subject', and 'a standard work for many years to come'. Since then, Herbert S. Klein has strengthened his reputation as a leading expert in this and other fields by further highly praised comparative syntheses such as 'The Atlantic Slave Trade' (1999), as well as by case studies (for example, on São Paulo, together with Francisco Vidal Luna, published in 2003). Klein is probably the first to admit the impressive output of new and significant research on this topic...