Want to dig a little deeper into slavery, both historical and modern? We've compiled a list of weblinks and books to start you off.

Weblinks
From Open2:
The Big Question: Can we ever beat slavery? - our global series provides a briefing to the problems faced in eradicating slavery in the 21st century

From bbc.co.uk
The British anti-slavery movement - the campaign to abolish slavery in the Empire took just 26 years to achieve its aims; how did it manage to have such an impact?

Slavery and Economy in Barbados - why was Barbados the only of the colonies to support abolition?

British slaves on the Barbary coast - although the taking of slaves from African nations made up the bulk of human trafficing, no country was immune from having its peoples enslaved

BBC World Service: The Atlantic Slave Trade - an introduction to the subject, with links to other pages about slavery on the BBC's "Story of Africa" website

Timeline - a timetable of the abolition movement

Elsewhere on the web:
Slavery Images - thousands of visual images from the slave trade

Thoughts Upon Slavery - the full text of John Wesley's 1774 condemnation of the trade

Bristol and Slavery - what was Bristol's role in the slave trade?

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Introductory Books

Edward Long, who is featured in the first programme, wrote a History of Jamaica in 1774; it was republished in the early 1970s and offers an interesting perspective on the times.

Thomas Clarkson's 1808 The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade was also republished in the late 20th century; it's one of the first histories of the abolition.


Historical perspectives

Johannes Postma, The Atlantic Slave Trade
Greenwood Press, 2003

Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave, 1440-1870
Papermac, 1970

P.D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: a Census
University of Wisconsin Press, 1967

J.E. Inikori and S.L. Engerman (eds.), The Atlantic Slave Trade
Duke University Press, 1992

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

B.L. Solow and S.L. Engerman (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987

B. Waites, Europe and the Third World
Macmillan Press, 1999

On Slavery in the West Indian Sugar Islands

Richard B. Sheridan, An Economic History of the British West Indies
Caribbean Universities Press, 1974

J.R.Ward,British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834: the process of amelioration
Clarendon, 1988

William A. Green, British Slave Emancipation: the sugar colonies and the great experiment
Clarendon, 1976

On The Sam Sharpe Rebellion

M. Turner, Slaves and Missionaries: the disintegration of Jamaican slave society, 1787-1834
Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1982

Biography

J. Pollock, William Wilberforce
Constable, 1977