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African History: a Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone (Oxford, 2007)
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano, edited by Vincent Carretta (Penguin, 2003)
Thomas Clarkson: A Biography by Ellen Gibson Wilson (William Sessions Ltd., 1996)
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave by Mary Prince, ed. Sara Salih (Penguin, 2000)
Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 (Routledge, 1992)
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama (´óÏó´«Ã½ Books, 2006)
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild (Macmillan, 2005)
John Clarkson and the African Adventure by Ellen Gibson Wilson (Macmillan, 1980)
The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade by William St Clair (Profile Books, 2006)
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective by Seymour Drescher (Oxford University Press, 1987)
Staying Power: the History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press, 1984)
Popular Politics and British Antislavery: The Mobilization of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade, 1787-1807 by J. R. Oldfield (Manchester University Press, 1995)
About the author
Adam Hochschild is the author of six books, most of them dealing with human rights. They include Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (Macmillan, 2005), a narrative history of the abolition movement, and King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Macmillan, 1999), which concerns the conquest and exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium.
