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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Bound for America Bound for America James Haskins Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas. OL14865376W
Dreams of Africa in Alabama Dreams of Africa in Alabama Sylviane A. Diouf Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage i… OL15306056W
The life and letters of Philip Quaque, the first African Anglican missionary The life and letters of Philip Quaque, the first African Anglican missionary Vincent Carretta This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition i… OL15452798W
Questioning Slavery Questioning Slavery Walvin, James.,James Walvin,Walvin James By teasing apart the history of slavery into its major components and by examining those themes that recent historians have brought to the fore, this book makes sense of what has become a confused an… OL156060W
Captive Captive Joyce Hansen When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African American shipbuilder who works to retur… OL175850W
The runaway's revenge The runaway's revenge Dave Jackson Thirteen-year-old Hamilton Jones seeks revenge against the former captain of the ship on which his mother had been taken from Africa to slavery in the Colonies. OL18177980W
Extending the frontiers Extending the frontiers Eltis, David,David Eltis,David Richardson,David Richardson "The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most up-to-… OL18359015W
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd A selection of overy 70 articles covering the sociology and econmics of slavery as well as its superstructure and, in particular, issues of race, helath , morality, religion, recreational culture, wo… OL1976276W
The slave trade The slave trade Anne Mountfield Traces the people, events, and procedures involved in the rise and fall of the slave trade, the "profitable industry" that lasted some 250 years. OL4970171W
Transformations in slavery Transformations in slavery Paul E. Lovejoy "This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. The new edition revises statist… OL53556W
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery N. Rodgers,Nini Rodgers,NINI RODGERS v, 403 p. : 23 cm OL6244262W
The sun is my undoing The sun is my undoing Marguerite Steen This is a story of Bristol and the slave trade in the 18th century; it is the story of the great shipping family of Flood, whose destinies led them out from Bristol to the Gold Coast, to Cuba and to … OL6674182W