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THE SLAVE TRADE, ABOLITION & EMANCIPATION: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Emma Christopher, Slave ships, sailors and their captive cargoes 1730-1807, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
Herbert S Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
James Walvin, Black Ivory: a history of British slavery, London: HarperCollins, 1992.
James Walvin, A short history of slavery, London: Penguin, 2007.
James Walvin, Slavery in small things: Slavery and modern cultural habits, Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell, 2017.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
M C Finn and Kate Smith, eds, The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857, London: UCL Press, 2018: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043118/
AFRICANS IN BRITAIN
Kathleen Chater, Untold histories: black people in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade, c.1660-1807, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
Paul Edwards, Black Personalities in the era of the slave trade, London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1983
Gretchen Gerzina, Black England: Life before Emancipation, London: John Murray, 1995.
Ignatius Sancho, The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, the African, London: Penguin Classics, 1998.
Follarin Shyllon, Black People in Britain 1555-1833, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
ABOLITION & EMANCIPATION
Carey, Brycchan, and Peter Kitson, eds, Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807 , Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007.
Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: A Biography of a Self Made Man, University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta, ed., Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery, London: Penguin Classics, 1999. The Georgian Group, November 2020
Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta, ed., The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African and Other Writings, London: Penguin Classics, 2003.
William Hague, William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner, London: HarperPress, 2007.
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British struggle to abolish slavery, London: Pan, 2010.
Michael Jordan, The great abolition sham: the true story of the end of the British slave trade, Stroud: Sutton, 2005.
Judith Jennings, The business of abolishing the British slave trade, 1783-1807, London: Frank Cass, 1997.
Clare Midgley, Women against Slavery: The British Campaigns1780-1870, London: Routledge, 1992.
John R Oldfield, Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: the mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade, 1787-1807, (Studies in Slave and Post-slave Societies and cultures), Manchester: 1995.
Michael Taylor, The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery, London: Bodley Head, 2020
Steven M Wise, Though the heavens may fall: the landmark trial that led to the end of human slavery, London: Pimlico, 2006.
REGIONAL AND COUNTRY HOUSE STUDIES
Gail Cameron and Stan Crooke, Liverpool: Capital of the slave trade, Liverpool: Picton, 1992
Madge Dresser and Sue Giles, eds, Bristol and transatlantic slavery: catalogue of the exhibition A Respectable Trade? Bristol & Transatlantic Slavery at the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol 6 March - 2 September 1999, Bristol: Bristol Museums & Art Gallery, c.2000.
Melinda Elder, The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of 18th Century Lancaster, Keele: Keele University Press, 1992.
Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann, Slavery and the British Country House, eds, London 2013: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/slavery-and-british-country-house/
Simon Smith, Slavery, family and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic: the world of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Cambridge Studies in Economic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, originally published on CD-ROM in 1999 by David Eltis, is available at: http://www.slavevoyages.org
A collaboration between Harewood House and the Borthwick Institute for Archives, part of the Library of the University of York, has provided access to the Lascelles Slavery Archive: https://www.york.ac.uk/projects/harewoodslavery/index.html
University College London’s Legacies of British Slave-ownership database is available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/