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Further reading about slavery

Further reading

This page contains a list of books, web links and organisations that provide more information about all aspects of slavery.

Books - general

African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, Herbert S. Klein; Oxford University Press, 1988

Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England, Daniel J. Vitkus; Columbia University Press, 2001

The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, Gwyn Campbell; Frank Cass, 2004

Abolition: the struggle to abolish slavery in the British colonies, Richard Reddie; Lion Books, 2007. ISBN 9780745952291

Out of Slavery, Nardia Foster; Redcliffe Publishing, Bristol, 2004

Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838, Iain Whyte; Edinburgh University Press, 2006. ISBN 0748624333

Sins of the Father: The Atlantic Slave Traders 1441-1807, James Pope-Hennessy; Castle Books, 2004. ISBN 0785815945

The making of the West Indies, F. R. Augier et al; Longman Caribbean, 1960. ISBN 0582763045

Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery, Adam Hochschild; Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 0333904915

Act to end slavery now, Anti-Slavery International and Set All Free, 2006. ISBN 0900918624

Books - abolitionists

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of Slavery and the Commerce of the Human Species London 1787, Ottobah Cugoano; Penguin Books Australia, 1999. ISBN 0140447504

William Wilberforce: The Freedom Fighter, D. Bingham; Christian Focus Publications 1998. ISBN 1857923715

John Newton: A slave set free, I. Howat; Christian Focus Publications, 2003. ISBN 1857928342

Thoughts on Slavery, John Wesley, 1774; republished by the Methodist Church, 2005

William Wilberforce: a biography, Stephen Tomkins; Lion Hudson, 2007

John Wesley, John Pollock; Lion, 1989. ISBN: 0745924565

The Wilberforce Connection, Clifford Hill; Monarch Books, 2004. ISBN 1854246712

The Clapham Sect, Margaret Bryant; The Clapham Society, 2004. ISBN 0950069469

White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, Winthrop D Jordan; University of North Carolina, 1968. ISBN 0807845507

Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery, Zerbanoo Gifford; Anti-Slavery international, 1996. ISBN: 0900918365

Slaves who abolished slavery. Volume 1: Blacks in Bondage, Richard Hart; University of the West Indies, 1980

Wilberforce, John Pollock; Lion, 1977. ISBN: 085648271

Thomas Fowell Buxton and the liberation of slaves, Oliver Barclay; William Sessions Limited, 2001. ISBN 1850722625

Books - Christian

Terror and Triumph: The nature of Black religion, Anthony B Pinn; Fortress Press, 2003. ISBN 0800636015

Black Church Beginnings, Henry H. Mitchell; Eerdmans, 2004. ISBN 0802827853

The Spirituals and the Blues, James H Cone; Orbis Books, 1998. ISBN 0883448432

Books - Muslim

Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East, Ehud R. Toledano; University of Washington Press, 1998

Race and Slavery in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis; Oxford University Press, 1994

Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa, Humphrey J Fisher; New York University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0814727166

Islam's Black slaves: The history of Africa's other Black Diaspora, Ronald Segal; Atlantic Books. 2001. ISBN 1903809800

Books - Jewish

Jews & Blacks in the Early Modern World, Jonathan Schorsch; Cambridge University Press, 2004

Jews in another environment; Surinam in the Second half of the 18th Century (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, vol 1), Robert Cohen; Brill Academic Publishers, 1997

The Jewish Confederates, Robert N. Rosen; University of South Carolina Press, 2000

Web links - resources

: 18th-century literature and history, focusing on slavery and abolition

Web links - organisations

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