Select bibliography

We recommend you use these to explore the themes of our blog further:

  1. Donington, Kate; Draper, Nicholas; Hall, Catherine; Lang, Rachel and McClelland, Keith, Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (Cambridge, 2014).
  2. Donington, Kate; Hanley, Ryan and Moody, Jessica (eds.). Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’ (Liverpool, 2016).
  3. Draper, Nicholas. ‘The City of London and Slavery: Evidence from the First Dock Companies, 1795-1800’, The Economic History Review, 61:2 (2008), 432-66.
  4. Eltis, David and Engerman, Stanley L. ‘The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain’, The Journal of Economic History, 60:1 (2000), 123-44.
  5. Engerman, Stanley L. and Inikori, Joseph E. (eds.). The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economics, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (Durham & London, 1992).
  6. Liddington, Jill, ‘What is Public History? Publics and their Pasts, Meanings and Practices.’ Oral History, 30:1 (2002), 83-93.
  7. Massey, Doreen, ‘Places and their Pasts.’ History Workshop Journal 39 (1995), 182-92.
  8. Oldfield, J. R. ‘Chords of Freedom’: Commemoration, ritual and British transatlantic slavery (Manchester, 2007).
  9. Riello, Giorgio ‘Things That Shape History: Material Culture and Historical Narratives,’ in Karen Harvey (ed.) History and Material Culture: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (London, 2018), 27-50.
  10. Scott, W. R, ‘The Constitution and Finance of the Royal African Company of England from its Foundation till 1720’, The American Historical Review, 8:2 (1903), 241-59.
  11. Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery (London, 1992).
  12. Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill, 1994).
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