Selected Bibliography
This bibliography lists for students and nonspecialists sources for further readering, primarily in English, on topics covered in this volume. Those interested in more specialized literature should consult the endnotes that accompany each chapter.
Afigbo, Adiele E. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 18851950. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Allain, Jean, ed. The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Anderson, Jennifer L. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Anderson, Richard, Alex Borucki, Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Paul Lachance, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo. Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 18081862. History in Africa 40 (2013): 16591.
Andrews, George Reid. Afro-Latin America, 18002000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. 1999. Revised edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Bender, Thomas, ed. The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Berlin, Ira, and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Bernardini, Paolo, and Norman Fiering, eds. The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 14501800. New York: Berghahn, 2001.
Bethell, Leslie. The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question, 18071869. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Blackburn, Robin. The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. London: Verso, 2011.
. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 14921800. London: Verso, 1997.
. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 17761848. London: Verso, 1988.
Blakely, Allison. Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Blum, Jerome. The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Bolt, Christine, and Seymour Drescher, eds. Anti-slavery, Religion, and Reform: Essays in Memory of Roger Anstey. Folkestone, UK: W. Dawson, 1980.
Borucki, Alex. From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Ro de la Plata. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
Borucki, Alex, David Eltis, and David Wheat. Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America. American Historical Review 120 (2015): 43361.
Boucher, Philip P. France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 17701820. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
Brereton, Bridget. Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 18701900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Brooks, George E. Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 10001630. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
. Yankee Traders, Old Coasters and African Middlemen: A History of American Legitimate Trade with West Africa in the Nineteenth Century. Brookline, MA: Boston University Press, 1970.
Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Brown, Christopher Leslie, and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds. Children in Slavery through the Ages. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.
Candido, Mariana P. An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Caizares-Esguera, Jorge, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury, eds. The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Castillo, Lisa Earl, and Luis Nicolau Pars. Marcelina da Silva: A Nineteenth-Century Candombl Priestess in Bahia. Slavery & Abolition 31 (2010): 127.
Catterall, Douglas, and Jodi Campbell, eds. Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 15001800. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Coclanis, Peter A., and Stanley L. Engerman. Would Slavery Have Survived without the Civil War? Economic Factors in the American South during the Antebellum and Postbellum Eras. Southern Cultures 19 (2013): 6690.
Conrad, Robert Edgar. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
Coughtry, Jay. The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 17001807. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
Craton, Michael. Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 1997.
. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
. Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.
Curto, Jos C. Enslaving Spirits: The Portuguese-Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and Its Hinterland, c. 15501830. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Curto, Jos C., and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2004.
Da Cunha, Manuela Carneiro. Negros, estrangeiros: Os escravos libertos e sua volta frica. So Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985.
Daniels, Christine, and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 15001820. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Da Silva, Daniel B. Domingues. The Atlantic Slave Trade to Maranho, 16801846: Volume, Routes and Organisation. Slavery & Abolition 29 (2008): 477501.
Da Silva, Daniel B. Domingues, David Eltis, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo. The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of African History 55 (2014): 34769.
Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 17701823. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.
De la Fuente, Alejandro. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Dike, K. Onwuka. Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 18301885: An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
Diouf, Sylviane A., ed. Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.
Drescher, Seymour. Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery