The Slave Trade and Abolition

Further Reading

  • Follarin Shyllon, Black People in Britain 1555-1833 (Oxford University Press 1977))
  • S I Martin, Britain’s Slave Trade (Channel 4 Books 1999)
  • David Dabydeen, Hogarth’s Blacks: Images of Blacks in 18th Century English Art (Manchester University Press 1987)
  • Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (BBC Books 2006)
  • Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The history of Black people in Britain (Pluto books 1984)
  • Paul Edwards and James Walvin, Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade (Palgrave Macmillan 1983)
  • Melinda Elder, The Slave Trade and the economic development of 18th Century Lancaster (Keele University Press 1992)
  • James Walvin, Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (Blackwell 2001)
  • Nigel File and Chris Power, Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 (Heinemann 1981)
  • Olaudah Equiano, ed. Vincent Carretta, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African and other writings (Penguin Classics 2003)
  • Ottobah Cugoano, ed. Vincent Carretta, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery (Penguin Classics 1999)
  • Ignatius Sancho, The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, the African (Penguin Classics 1998)
  • Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: A Biography of a Self Made Man (University of Georgia Press 2005)
  • Gretchen Gerzina, Black England: Life before Emancipation (John Murray 1995)
  • Michael Jordan, The Great Abolition Sham: The true story of the end of the British slave trade (Sutton 2005)
  • Emma Christopher, Slave ships, sailors and their captive cargoes 1730-1807 (Cambridge University Press 2006)
  • William St. Clair, The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British slave trade (Profile Books 2006)
  • Paul Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery: A history of slavery in Africa (Cambridge University Press)
  • Madge Dresser and Sue Giles, Bristol and transatlantic slavery
  • Gail Cameron and Stan Crooke, Liverpool: Capital of the slave trade (Picton Press 1992)
  • Clare Midgley, Women against Slavery: The British Campaigns 1780-1870 (London 1992)
  • Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (ed. Sarah Salih, Penguin Classics 2000)
  • Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to abolish Slavery (Pan 2006)

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