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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker
    The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist - by Marcus Rediker

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786634726 | ISBN 10: 1786634724

    The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.  He pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England by Corinne Fowler
    Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England - by Corinne Fowler

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234829 | ISBN 10: 1845234820

    Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness.  The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and globa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool,
    The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, 'Slaving Capital of the World' - by Jessica Moody

    £19.95   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781800348288 | ISBN 10: 1800348282

    The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
    The Lamplighter - by Jackie Kay

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529039856 | ISBN 10: 1529039851

    In The Lamplighter award-winning poet and Scottish Makar Jackie Kay takes us on a journey into the dark heart of Britain's legacy in the slave trade.   First produced as a play, on the page it reads as a profound and tragic multi-layered poem ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires by James Walvin
    Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires - by James Walvin

    £20.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472141422 | ISBN 10: 1472141423

    In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves – from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings – and its ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Slave
    The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition - by Manisha Sinha

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780300227116 | ISBN 10: 0300227116

    A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War.  Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cugoano Against Slavery by Martin Hoyles
    Cugoano Against Slavery - by Martin Hoyles

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781906190972 | ISBN 10: 1906190976

    Out of the three leading black figures in eighteenth-century England (Sancho, Equiano and Cugoano), Ottobah Cugoano is the least well known. Yet he was the most radical, campaigning not just against the slave trade but for a ‘total abolition of slave ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America
    Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves - by Eric Foner

    £18.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780198737902 | ISBN 10: 0198737904

    When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to freedom in what is now Canada. The 'underground railroad' has become part of folklore, but one part of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships by Ray Costello
    Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships - by Ray Costello

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781380147 | ISBN 10: 1781380147

    During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and ‘top men’, working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merch ... more

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  • Cover image of book Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic by Alan Rice
    Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic - by Alan Rice

    £16.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846317590 | ISBN 10: 1846317592

    This book investigates memorials and monuments to slavery throughout the African diaspora, but with an emphasis on Europe. It analyses not only the increasing number of physical monuments, but also the practice of remembering (and forgetting) in muse ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery by Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles
    Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery - by Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles

    £29.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846312441 | ISBN 10: 1846312442

    Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson.&nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
    Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - by Simon Schama

    £16.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536079 | ISBN 10: 0099536072

    Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.   With gripping, powerfully vivid story-te ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
    The Slave Ship: A Human History - by Marcus Rediker

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719563034 | ISBN 10: 0719563038

    The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South by Ira Berlin
    Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South - by Ira Berlin

    £16.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581730 | ISBN 10: 1595581731

    Widely recognized as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the slave era” (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize–winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. These two classic volumes, now ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 by Marika Sherwood
    After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 - by Marika Sherwood

    £22.50   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845113650 | ISBN 10: 1845113659

    With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain washed its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book.  In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Freedom Stairs: The Story of Adam Lowry Rankin, Underground Railroad Conductor by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
    The Freedom Stairs: The Story of Adam Lowry Rankin, Underground Railroad Conductor - by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780828320849 | ISBN 10: 0828320845

    The Rankin family helped to bring over 2000 slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Discover their world through the eyes of Adam, the oldest of the Rankin children. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slave Song by David Dabydeen
    Slave Song - by David Dabydeen

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845230043 | ISBN 10: 1845230043

    Slave Song is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean / Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women
    Women's Slave Narratives - by Annie L Burton et al

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780486445557 | ISBN 10: 0486445550

    The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - by Harriet Jacobs

    £8.95   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780393976373 | ISBN 10: 0393976378

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs's early life as a slave in North Carolina; her fugitive years in New York, Boston, and Rochester ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince
    The History of Mary Prince - by Mary Prince

    £8.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780140437492 | ISBN 10: 0140437495

    Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne on the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua, eventua ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves by Gregory A. Freeman
    Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves - by Gregory A. Freeman

    £12.50   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781556524479 | ISBN 10: 1556524471

    The sensational story of how slavery survived into this century, and the brutal murders that changed Southern history.   The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years af ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Slavery by Peter Kolchin
    American Slavery - by Peter Kolchin

    £12.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780140241501 | ISBN 10: 0140241507

    'Although Americans like to think that the United States was "conceived in liberty", writes Peter Kolchin, 'the reality is somewhat different...' The crucial 'difference', of course, was slavery. Here he examines its roots in the colonial era, e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool and Slavery: A Scouse Press reprint of the 1884 account by
    Liverpool and Slavery: A Scouse Press reprint of the 1884 account by 'Dicky Sam' - by Dicky Sam

    £4.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9780901367327 | ISBN 10: 090136732x

    Facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1884, at a time when the British slave trade had been dead for more than 50 years, but many of the slave traders and captains who commanded the slave ships would still have been alive. (Which is probably ... more

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