Ch. 1. First Sights-Lasting Impressions -- Elite Africans in Europe to 1650 -- Enslaved Africans in Europe -- Discovering Europeans in Africa -- Southeast Africa, 1589-1635 -- Kongo Cosmology -- Ch. 2. Politics and Religion -- The Meanings of Religious Conversion -- Benin and Warri -- The Kingdom of Kongo -- Swahili and Mutapa -- Ethiopia -- Ch. 3. Commerce and Culture -- African Trading Strategies -- The Eighteenth Century -- Language, Trade, and Culture -- Sexual Encounters -- Ch. 4. Atlantic Imports and Technology -- Evaluating Inland Trade -- Textiles and Metals -- Tobacco and Distilled Spirits -- Guns and Politics -- Economic and Social Consequences -- Ch. 5. Passages in Slavery -- Capture in Africa -- The Middle Passage -- New Identities -- Creolization -- Africanization -- Ch. 6. Africans in Europe, 1650-1850 -- African Delegates and Students -- Servants High and Low in Continental Europe -- Anglo-Africans -- Scholars and Churchmen -- Concluding Observations.