Middle Passages: A Shared History of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
University of York
July 31 – Aug 7, 2011

Bibliography for Further Reading

Berlin, Ira. "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African- American Society in Mainland North America." The William and Mary Quarterly 53, no. 2 (1996): 251-288.

________. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

________. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848. London; New York: Verso, 1988.

________. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. London; New York: Verso, 1997.

________. The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. London; New York: Verso, 2011.

Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Byrd, Alexander X. Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

Chase-Riboud, Barbara. Sally Hemmings: A Novel. New York: Viking, 1979.

Christopher, Emma. Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Christopher, Emma, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker. Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Craton, Michael, and James Walvin. A Jamaican Plantation; the History of Worthy Park 1670-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.

Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.

________. Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Dresser, Madge. Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port. New York: Continuum, 2001.

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

________. Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Eltis, David, and David Richardson. Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997.

________. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

________. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven, Conn; London: Yale University Press, 2010.

Eltis, David, James Walvin, and Svend E. Green-Pedersen. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.

Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross; the Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

Garland, Charles, and Herbert S. Klein. "The Allotment of Space for Slaves Aboard Eighteenth-Century British Slave Ships." The William and Mary Quarterly 42, no. 2 (1985): 238-248.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Heuman, Gad J., and James Walvin. The Slavery Reader. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.

James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins; Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1963.

Klein, Herbert S., and Ben Vinson. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Look Lai, Walton. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Miers, Suzanne, and Igor Kopytoff. Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

Palmer, Colin A. The Worlds of Unfree Labour: From Indentured Servitude to Slavery. Aldershot; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, Variorum, 1998.

Perbi, Akosua Adoma. A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana: From the 15th to the 19th Century. Legon, Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2004.

Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking, 2007.

Reichard, Gary W., Ted Dickson, and Historians Organization of American. America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Richardson, David, Anthony Tibbles, and Suzanne Schwarz. Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Stedman, John Gabriel, Richard Price, and Sally Price. Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: Transcribed for the First Time from the Original 1790 Manuscript. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Vansina, Jan. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

Walvin, James. The Trader, the Owner, the Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery. London: Vintage, 2008.

________. The Slave Trade. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

________. The Zong: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011.

Williams, Eric Eustace. Capitalism and Slavery. New York: Capricorn Books, 1966.