About the Author

Jos� C. Curto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is assistant professor of history at York University, associate editor of the Portuguese Studies Review, and author of Alco�l e Escravos: O com�rcio das bebibas alco�licas e o seu impacto em Angola durante o tr�fico de escravos, c. 1480-1830 (Lisbon: Editora Vulgata, Colec��o "Tempos e Espa�os Africanos," 2003).
Paul E. Lovejoy (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is Distinguished Research Professor in History, the Director of the Harriet Tubman Research Centre on the African Diaspora, and the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University. He is the author of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa.