Abolition of the slave trade
We have a range of information on the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Anti-Slavery books
Children's fiction and non-fiction
- Tonya Bolden - Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl
- Stephanie Fitzgerald - Struggling for Civil Rights
- Brindell Fradin - 5,000 Miles to Freedom
- Christine Hatt - The African-American Slave Trade
- Christine Hatt - Slavery from Africa to the Americas
- Ann Kramer - Black Peoples of America
- Julius Lester - To be a Slave
- Mary Lyons - Letters from a Slave Girl
- Fredrick McKissack - Days of Jubilee
- Janet Riehecky - The Abolition of Slavery
- Stewart Ross - Greed, Seeds and Slavery
- Kaye Stearman - Slavery Today
- Joyce Thomas - I Have Heard of a Land
- Harriet Tubman - The Life of Harriet Tubman
- Moses Weatherford - When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
- Jacqueline Woodson - Show Way
Adult non-fiction
- Adele Alexander - Homelands and Waterways
- Gail Cameron - Liverpool - Capital of the Slave Trade
- Basil Davidson - The Black Man's Burden
- Basil Davidson - The African Slave Trade
- Laurent Dubois - Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804
- Anne Farrow - Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery
- John Gilmore - Empires and Conquests
- John Gilmore - Freedom and Change
- Heuman and Walvin - The Slavery Reader
- Joseph Inikori - Africans and Industrial Revolution in England
- Paul Lovejoy - Identity in the Shadow of Slavery
- Edmund Morgan - American Slavery, American Freedom
- Richard Newman - Pamphlets of Protest
- Eric Sundquist - Empire and Slavery in American Literature 1820-1865
- Hugh Thomas - The Slave Trade 1440-1870
- Anthony Tibbles - Transatlantic Slavery
- Gomer Williams - History of the Liverpool Privateers and letters of Marque
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