Recommended
Books on the Slave Trade
Sacred
Hunger
by Barry Unsworth
Highly Recommended
(Paperback - November 1993)
The
Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
by Robert W. Harms
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From the 16th to the 19th century, more than 40,000 slave ships plied
the waters of the Atlantic, bringing human cargo to the Americas. Drawing
on a memoir by a lieutenant, historian Robert Harms tells the story of
one such ship, a story that, although shocking to modern readers, "was
distressingly ordinary in its own time and place." Designed to transport
grain over short distances, the Diligent was perhaps not the most seaworthy
of vessels. Still, by ship's officer Robert Durand's account, it transported
nearly 300 victims at a time from the African coast to the French colony
of Martinique, often at a terrible cost in life because of disease, malnutrition,
and harsh shipboard discipline. Harms carefully reconstructs episodes in
the ship's life, including the curious trial that ended its 1731 ocean
crossing. More than that, he untangles the complex business of the slave
trade, which was far from monolithic, depending instead on ever-shifting
alliances and private agendas in the race for profit. As Harms notes, though
more than 17,000 ships' logs from the slaving voyages of the 18th century
have been recovered, only a few shed light on daily life aboard those vessels.
His troubling narrative does just that, and it gives new evidence of the
ordinariness of evil. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 448 pages 1 Ed edition (December 18, 2001)
Basic Books; ISBN: 0465028713
Oroonoko,
the Rover and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
by Aphra Behn, Janet Todd (Editor)
(Paperback)
Slave
Trade - Other Works
Adventures of an African Slaver: An Account of the Life of Captain
Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory, and Slaves on the Coast of Guinea...
by Theodore Canot, et al
Listed under Guinea
Ama:
A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
by Manu Herbstein
(Paperback - December 2000)
The
Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas)
by Herbert S. Klein
(Paperback - May 1999)
Africa
Remembered : Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade
by Philip D. Curtin (Editor)
(Paperback - April 1997)
Africans
and the Industrial Revolution in England
by J. E. Inikori
(Paperback - March 2002)
The
Birth of Black America : The Age of Discovery and the Slave Trade (Milestones
in Black American History)
Andrew Frank, et al
Paperback / Published 1996
Bound
for America : The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
by James Haskins, et al
(Hardcover - January 1999)
Capitalism
& Slavery
by Eric Eustace Williams, Colin A. Palmer (Introduction)
(Paperback - October 1994)
Caribbean
Slave Society and Economy : A Student Reader
by Verene Shepherd (Editor), Hilary McDonald Beckles (Editor)
(Paperback - January 1994)
Chosen
People from the Caucasus : Jewish Origins, Delusions, Deceptions and Historical
Role in the Slave Trade, Genocide and Cultural Colonization
by Michael Bradley
(Hardcover - November 1992)
Frederick Douglass : Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845
Gregory P. Lampe
Listed under Frederick Douglass
George Washington and Slavery : A Documentary Portrayal
by Fritz Hirschfeld
Listed under George Washington
Escape
from the Slave Traders (Trailblazers Books)
by Dave Jackson, et al
Reading level: Ages 9-12
(Paperback - August 1992)
Jews
and the American Slave Trade
by Saul S. Friedman
(Paperback - November 1999)
Oroonoko
: Or, the Royal Slave
by Aphra Behn, et al
(Paperback - June 1997)
Goree Island : Island of No Return
by Richard Harrison Goree
Listed under Senegal
King Guezo of Dahomey 1850-52: The Abolition of the Slave Trade on
the West Coast of Africa
by Tim Coates
Listed under Benin
The
Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South,
1670-1717
by Alan Gallay
Book Description This absorbing book is the first ever to focus
on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American
South. The Indian slave trade was of central importance from the Carolina
coast to the Mississippi Valley for nearly fifty years, linking southern
lives and creating a whirlwind of violence and profit-making, argues Alan
Gallay. He documents in vivid detail how the trade operated, the processes
by which Europeans and Native Americans became participants, and the profound
consequences for the South and its peoples. The author places Native Americans
at the center of the story of European colonization and the evolution of
plantation slavery in America. He explores the impact of such contemporary
forces as the African slave trade, the unification of England and Scotland,
and the competition among European empires as well as political and religious
divisions in England and in South Carolina. Gallay also analyzes how Native
American societies approached warfare, diplomacy, and decisions about allying
and trading with Europeans. His wide-ranging research not only illuminates
a crucial crossroad of European and Native American history but also establishes
a new context for understanding racism, colonialism, and the meaning of
ethnicity in early America.
Hardcover: 464 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.34 x
9.47 x 6.38
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ; (March 1, 2002)
ISBN: 0300087543
The
Making of a Rebel: Captain Donald Macleod of the New Hebrides
by Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey
Tarred as a blackbirder, Donald Macleod participated in settlement
and trading in the Pacific Islands from 1868 until his death in 1894. Although
he did participate in the labour trade, he has been unfairly maligned in
history books. British and French colonialists, anxious to achieve political
ends, used Macleod as a whipping boy, as did the New Hebrides Mission.
After extensive research, his great niece, Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey,
found that Macleod enjoyed a good reputation among Islanders, settlers,
traders and some colonial officials and missionaries; he was not the villain
that many others had painted him. This book offers hitherto unknown data
about trading conditions and Islander participation and revelatory discussion
of the politics of the day, as well as an intimate portrait of a survivor
in a rough and controversial era. The Publisher.
(Paperback)
The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano : Written by Himself
(Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Olaudah Equiano, Robert J. Allison (Editor)
Olaudiah Equiano's 1789 narrative tells the remarkable story of his
childhood in Africa, his kidnapping and subsequent years as a slave and
seaman, and his eventual road to freedom in the Caribbean and in England.
Paperback (April 1995)
Bedford/St. Martin's; ISBN: 0312111274
Maroon
Societies : Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
by Richard Price (Editor)
Paperback 3rd edition (September 1996)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801854962
My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass
Listed under Frederick Douglass
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic : Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment,
1772-1815
by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), William L. Andrews (Editor)
Listed under Slave Narratives
The
Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
by David Eltis
(Paperback - November 1999)
Senegambia
and the Atlantic Slave Trade (African Studies Series, 91)
by Boubacar Barry
(Paperback - January 1998)
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
by Jan Hogendorn et al.
Listed under Numismatism
Speculators
and Slaves : Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South
by Michael Tadman
Paperback: 336 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x
9.07 x 6.12
Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299118541; Reprint edition
(December 1, 1989)
The
Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America,1638-1870
by W. E. B. Du Bois
(Paperback - August 1999)
To
Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888
by Katia M. De Queiros Mattoso, et al
(Paperback - September 1987)
Slave Narratives (Library of America.)
by William L. Andrews (Editor), Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor)
Listed under Slave Narratives
Slavery and the Founders : Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
by Paul Finkelman
Listed under Thomas Jefferson
Soul
by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
This award-winning volume takes readers inside the New Orleans slave
market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children
were packaged, priced and sold. Johnson transforms the statistics of this
chilling practice into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves,
negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. Powell's.
Hardcover - 320 pages (February 2000)
Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674821483 |
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The Atlantic Sound
by Caryl Phillips
(Hardcover - October 2000)
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The Slave Trade : The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870
by Hugh Thomas
(Hardcover - November 1997)
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