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Colonialism, Slavery, Trade, Reparations
Remedying the 'Past'?

Books

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The books are organized by category. Please click on a category to go to the section with the relevant resources.

Further references can be found on the Slavery and Reparations reading list (Ratio Juris blog), prepared by professor Brophy.






Abolition

Roger Anstey, The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810 (Modern Revivals in History) (Macmillan 1975)

Helary Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd, Saving souls : the struggle to end the transatlantic trade in Africans (Ian Randle Publishers 2007)

Thomas Bender (ed.), The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (University of California Press 1992)

Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (University of North Carolina Press 2006)

Nicolas Draper, The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge University Press 2010)

Stephen Farrell, Melanie Unwin and James Walvin The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People (Edinburgh University press 2007)

Peter Marshall, Bristol and the abolition of slavery: the politics of emancipation (Bristol Branch of the Historical Association 1975)

Kenneth O. Morgan, The British Transatlantic Slave Trade: The abolitionist struggle : promoters of the slave trade (Pickering & Chatto Ltd 2003)

John R. Oldfield, Popular Politics and British Anti-slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade, 1787-1807 (Taylor & Francis 1998)

Prof. Kathryn Kish Sklar and Prof. James Brewer Stewart (eds.), Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation (Yale University Press 2007)

Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson (eds), Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements (Routledge 2011)

Amar Wahab and Cecily Jones (eds.), Free at last? : reflections on freedom and the abolition of the British Transatlantic slave trade (Cambridge Scholars 2011)

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Slavery legacies

James Kwesi Anquandah, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Landmarks, Legacies, Expectations: Proceedings of the International Conference on Historic Slave Route Held at Accra (Sub-Saharan Publishers 2008)

Andrew Billingsley, Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacies of African-American Families (Touchstone 1994)

Bristol Race Forum, Myths, facts, feelings : Bristol & transatlantic slavery (Community Media South West 2010)

See also accompanying website.

Lloyd Evering, Kofi Mawuli Klu, Richard S. Reddie, The Transatlantic slave trade and its legacies (Churches Together in England 2007)

Ronald J. Fiscus, The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action (Duke University Press Books 1992)

John Hope Franklin, The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (University of Missouri Press 1993)

George M. Fredrickson White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History (Oxford University Press 1982)

Sandra Ingrid Gift, Maroon teachers : teaching the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans (Ian Randle Publishers 2008)

Brian L. Moore, Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana after Slavery 1838-1891 (Gordon and Breach 1987)

Melvin Oliver (ed.), Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (Routledge 2006)

Gert Oostindie, Facing up to the past: perspectives on the commemoration of slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe (Ian Randle 2001)

Len Pole, Cargo: Excavating the Contemporary Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Plymouth and Devon (University of Plymouth Press 2011)

Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson (eds), Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements (Routledge 2011)

Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (Bloomsbury 2013)

Amar Wahab and Cecily Jones (eds.), Free at last? : reflections on freedom and the abolition of the British Transatlantic slave trade (Cambridge Scholars 2011)

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Narratives

William L. Andrews (ed.), Six Women's Slave Narratives. Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (Oxford University Press 1988)

John W. Blassingame, Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews and Autobiographies (Louisiana State University Press 1977)

Vincent Caretta (ed.), Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative and Other Writing (Penguin Books 1995)

Philip De Armond Curtin (ed.), Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trad (Waveland Press 1997)

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (New American Library 1968)

Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Afric (J. Phillips, George Yard 1788)

Henry Louis Gates (ed.), The Classic Slave Narrative (Penguin 1987)

Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trad (Basic Books 2002)

Pascoe Grenfell Hill, Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843 (Black Classic Press 1996)

Thomas Howard (ed.), Black Voyage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Little Brown & Co. 1971)

Belinda Hurmence (ed.), Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves (John F. Blair 1989)

Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie (Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society 1995)

James Mellon (ed.), Bullwhip Days, the Slaves Remember: An Oral Histor (Avon Books 1990)

Helen Thomas, Romanticism and slave narratives : transatlantic testimonies (Cambridge University Press 2000)

Katherine Van Wormer, David Walter Jackson and III by Charletta Sudduth, The Maid Narratives Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press 2012)

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Racism

John Arthur, Race, equality, and the burdens of history (Cambridge University Press 2007)

Kevin Boyle (ed.), Dimensions of Racism: Proceedings of a Workshop to commemorate the end of the United Nations Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination Paris, 19-20 February 2003 (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 2005)

David Brown and Clive Webb, Race in the American South : from slavery to civil rights (University Press of Florida 2007)

Richard Delgado, The Coming Race War? And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare (NYU Press 1996)

Joe R. Feagin, Racist America : roots, current realities, and future reparations (Routledge 2000)

George M. Fredrickson, The arrogance of race : historical perspectives on slavery, racism, and social inequality (Wesleyan University Press 1988)

Joseph F. Healey, Race, ethnicity, gender, and class : the sociology of group conflict and change (SAGE 2012)

Manning Marable, Speaking Truth To Power: Essays On Race, Resistance, And Radicalism (Westview Press 1996)

Raphael Walden (ed.), Racism and human rights (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2004)

C. Vann Woodward, American counterpoint; slavery and racism in the North-South dialogue (Brown 1971)

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Reparations

Amiri Baraka, The Essence of Reparations (House of Nehesi Publishers 2003)

Elazar Barkan, The guilt of nations : restitution and negotiating historical injustices (Johns Hopkins University Press 2001)

Hilary McD. Beckles, Britain's Black Debt (University of West Indies Press, Jamaica, 2013).

Boris Bittker, The Case for Black Reparations (Beacon Press 2002)

Alfred L. Brophy, Reparations, Pro and Con (OUP 2006). Brophy is professor of law at the University of Alabama.

Roy L. Brooks, Atonement and forgiveness : a new model for black reparations (University of California Press 2004)

Roy Lavon Brook, When sorry isn't enough : the controversy over apologies and reparations for human injustice (New York University Press 1999)

Daniel Butt, Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations (Oxford University Press 2008)

Dalton Conley, 'Calculating slavery reparations: theory, numbers, and implications', in John Torpey (ed.) Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

J. Angelo Corlett, Race, racism, and reparations (Cornell University Press 2003)

Janet Dine and Andrew Fagan (eds.), Human rights and capitalism : a multidisciplinary perspective on globalisation (Edward Elgar 2006)

Max Du Plessis (ed.), Repairing the past? : international perspectives on reparations for gross human rights abuses (Intersentia 2007)

Charles Henry, Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations (2nd edn, New York University Press 2009)

David Horowitz Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery (Encounter Books 2002)

Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, FARMER-PAELLMANN v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON (RSG 2007)

Peter Flaherty and John Carlisle, The Case Against Slave Reparations (National Legal and Policy Centre 2004). Available here (pdf)

Robert S Lecky, Black Manifesto: Religion, Racism, and Reparations (Sheed and Ward 1969)

Michael T. Martin (ed.), Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies (Duke University Press 2007)

Alamin M. Mazrui, Black Reparations in the Era of Globalization (NY Institute of Global Cultural Studies 2002)

Jon Miller (ed.), Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Oxford University Press 2007)

Clarence J. Munford, Race and Reparations: A Black Perspective for the Twenty-First Century: Black Perspective for the 21st Century (Africa Research & Publications 1996)

Randall Robinson, The debt: What America owes to Blacks (Dutton 2000)

John Torpey (ed.), Politics and the past : on repairing historical injustices (Rowman & Littlefield 2003)

John Torpey, Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics: On Reparation Politics (Harvard University Press 2006)

Geraldine Van Bueren, Slavery & piracy : the case for reparations for slavery (Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations 2001)

Ronald W. Walters, The price of racial reconciliation (University of Michigan Press 2008)

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Slavery

Jean Allain, Slavery in International Law: Of Human Exploitation and Trafficking (Martinus Nijhoff 2012)

Hilary Beckles, White Servitude and Black Slavery in Barbados, 1627-1715 (University of Tennessee Press 1989)

Hilary Beckles,Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Women in Barbados (Rutgers University Press 1989)

Hilary Beckles, Black rebellion in Barbados: the struggle against slavery, 1627-1838 (Bridgetown, Barbados Antilles Publications 1984)

Hilary Beckles and Verene Sheperd (eds.), Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World (Markus Wiener Publishers 1999)

Hilary Beckles, Centering woman: gender discourses in Caribbean slave society (Ian Randle Publishers 1999)

Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan (eds.), Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies, University Press of Virginia 1993)

Conrad Curtin and Robert Edgar (eds.), Children of God's Fire : A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazi (Pennsylvania State University Press 1994)

Fernne Brennan and John Packer (eds), Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'? (Routledge 2012)

Robin Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery:1776-1848 (Verso 1988)

Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: from the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800 (Verso 1997)

Robin Blackburn, The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (Verso 2001)

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Cornell University Press 1966)

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Oxford University Press 1975)

Jennifer L. Eichstedt and Stephen Small. Representations of slavery : race and ideology in southern plantation museums (Smithsonian Institution Press 2002)

David Eltis and David Richardson (eds.), Routes to slavery : direction, ethnicity and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade (Frank Cass 1997)

Douglas J. Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World 1750-1820 (Manchester University Press 2010)

Karen Hagemann, Jane Rendall and Gisela Mettele (eds.), Gender, war and politics : transatlantic perspectives, 1775-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)

Thomas C. Holt The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (John Hopkins University Press 1992)

Joseph E. Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge University Press 2002)

Herbert S. Klein, The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Princeton University Press 1978)

Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (Oxford University Press 1986)

Joseph C. Miller, Slavery: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1982(Kraus International Publications 1985)

Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law: 1619-186 (University of North Carolina Press 1996)

Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola (eds.), Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Indiana University Press 2010)

Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Harvard University Press 1982)

Marten Schalkwijk and Stephen Small, New perspectives on slavery and colonialism in the Caribbean (Ninsee 2012)

Verene Shepherd, Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica (Ian Randle Publishers 2009)

Barbara Lewis Solow and Stanley L. Engerman, British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams (Cambridge University Press 2004)

The Marines Museum, Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas (Smithsonian Books 2002)

Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (Bloomsbury 2013)

Betty Wood, Slavery in colonial America, 1619-1776 (Rowman & Littlefield 2005)

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Slave trade

Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830 (Harvard University Press 2009)

Richard Bean, The British trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1650-1775 (Arno Press 1975)

Hilary Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd, Trading souls : Europe's transatlantic trade in Africans : a bicentennial Caribbean reflection (Ian Randle Publishers 2007)

Richard Benjamin and David Fleming, Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction (Liverpool University Press 2011)

Madeline Burnside, Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century (Simon & Schuster 1997)

Jose C Curto and Renee Soulodre-LaFrance (eds.), Africa and the Americas : interconnections during the slave trade (Africa World Press 2004)

Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), A Historical Guide to World Slaver (Oxford University Press 1998)

Douglas R Egerton et al., The Atlantic World: A History, 1400 - 1888 (Wiley-Blackwell 2007)

Stanley Engerman, From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (New York University Press 1999)

David Eltis, Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade (Oxford University Press 1987)

David Eltis and David Richardson (eds.), Routes to slavery : direction, ethnicity and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade (Frank Cass 1997)

David Eltis and David Richardson (eds), Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Yale University Press 2008)

David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press 2010)

Lloyd Evering, Kofi Mawuli Klu, Richard S. Reddie, The Transatlantic slave trade and its legacies (Churches Together in England 2007)

Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Slavery in Diplomacy The Foreign Office and the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade (Sussex Academic Press 2009)

H.A. Gemery, Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Academic Press Inc 1979)

Toby Green, The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 (Cambridge University Press 2011)

Clive Harris, Three continents, one history : Birmingham, the transatlantic slave trade and the Caribbean (Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre 2008)

Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (Duke University Press 1992)

Pip Jones, Satan's kingdom : Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade (Past & Present Press 2007)

Herbert S. Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas) (Cambridge University Press 1999)

David Killingray, The Transatlantic Slave Trade (People on the Move Series) (B T Batsford Ltd 1987)

Lisa A. Lindsay, Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Pearson 2007)

Jenny S. Martinez, The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press 2012)

Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 (University of Wisconsin Press 1988)

Kenneth O. Morgan, The British Transatlantic Slave Trade: The abolitionist struggle : promoters of the slave trade (Pickering & Chatto Ltd 2003)

Valerie Munday (ed), Enfield and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 1807-2007 (Enfield Museum Service 2008)

David Northrup (ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade. Lexington (Heath 2001)

Ilka Pannen, Respectable Trade? Bristol & Transatlantic Slavery (Bristol Museums & Art Gallery 2000)

Oliver Ransford, The Slave Trade :The Story of Transatlantic Slavery (Readers Union 1972)

Edward Reynolds, Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Elephant Paperbacks by Ivan R. Dee 1992)

David Richardson, 'Profits in the Liverpool slave trade : the accounts of William Davenport, 1757-1784' in Roger Anstey and P.E.H. Hair, Liverpool, the African Slave Trade and abolition (Liverpool, 1976)

David Richardson, Anthony J. Tibbles, Suzanne Schwarz, Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery (Liverpool University Press 2007)

Johannes Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815 (Cambridge University Press 1990)

James Rawley, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition (University of Nebraska Press 2009)

Siān Rees, Sweet Water and Bitter:The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade (University of New Hampshire Press 2011). "The extraordinary sequel to Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807" (from the synopsis).

Rosemarie Robotham (ed.), Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Centur (Simon and Schuster Editions 1997)

Nigel Sadler et al (eds.), Enfield and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Enfield and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2008)

Rebecca Shumway, The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (University of Rochester Press 2011)

Barbara L. Solow, Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System (Cambridge University Press 1991)

Srividhya Swaminathan, Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 (Ashgate 2009)

Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 (Orion Publishing Group 2006)

Anthony Tibbles (ed.), Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside 1994)

Arthur Torrington et al., Equiano : enslavement, resistance and abolition (The Equiano Society & Birmingham Museum 2007)

Frances Wilkins, Dumfries & Galloway and the transatlantic slave trade (Wyre Forest Press 2007)

Jutty Wimmler, Centralized African States in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Example of 18th Century Asante and Dahomey (Leykam 2012)

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