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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

author: Olaudah Equiano
isbn: 9780142437162
publisher: Penguin Classics
year: 2003
African History: a Very Short Introduction

author: John Parker and Richard Rathbone
isbn: 9780192802484
publisher: Oxford
year: 2007
Atlas of Slavery

author: James Walvin
isbn: 9780582437807
publisher: Routledge
year: 2005
Before the Slave Trade: African World History in Pictures

author: Robin Walker
isbn: 9780955969508
publisher: Black History Studies Publications
year: 2008
Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire

author: James Walvin
isbn: 9780631229605
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
year: 2001
Britain's Slave Trade

author: Steve Martin
isbn: 9780752217857
publisher: Channel 4
year: 1999
Bury the Chains: The British struggle to abolish slavery

author: Adam Hochschild
isbn: 9780330485814
publisher: Pan Publishing
year: 2006
Capitalism and Slavery

author: Eric Williams
isbn: 9780807844885
publisher: University of North Carolina Press
year: 1994
The Classic Slave Narratives

author: Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Mary Prince
isbn: 9780451528247
publisher: Signet Classics
year: 2002
From Slavery to Citizenship

author: Richard Ennals
isbn: 9780470028322
publisher: Wiley
year: 2007
The Horrors of Slavery

author: Robert Wedderburn
isbn: 9780748603121
The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights

author: Harry Harmer
isbn: 9780582404380
publisher: Longman Book Project
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

author: Frederick Douglass
isbn: 9780345478238
publisher: Modern Library
year: 2004
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her Book of Life

author: Sojourner Truth
isbn: 9780486298993
publisher: Dover Publications
year: 2012
Out of Slavery: Learning about the history of Black British Caribbean People

author: Nardia Foster
isbn: 978-0954742003
publisher: Redcliffe Publishing
year: 2004
Representing Slavery: Art, artefacts and archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum

author: Douglas Hamilton, Robert J. Blyth
isbn: 9780853319665
publisher: Lund Humphries
year: 2007
Rough Crossings, Britain, The Slaves and the American Revolution

author: Simon Schama
isbn: 9780060539160
publisher: Ecco
year: 2006
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Saltwater Slavery

author: Stephanie Smallwood
isbn: 9780674023499
publisher: Harvard University Press
year: 2007
The Shackled Continent – Africa’s Past, Present and future

author: Robert Guest
isbn: 9780330419727
publisher: Pan Publishing
year: 2005
Slavery to Freedom: Britain's Slave Trade and Abolition

author: James Walvin
isbn: 9781841652207
publisher: Pitkin Guides
The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 – 1870

author: Hugh Thomas
isbn: 9780330354370
publisher: Picador
year: 1997
Staying Power - The History of Black People in Britain

author: Peter Fryer
isbn: 9780861047499
publisher: Pluto Press
year: 1984
Taking Liberties: The Struggle for Britain’s Freedoms and Rights

author: Mike Ashley
isbn: 9780712350297
publisher: British Library
year: 2009
Unchained Memories, readings from the Slave Narratives

author: Cynthia Goodman, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
isbn: 9780821228425
publisher: Bulfinch Press
year: 2003
Voices from Slavery, 100 Authentic Slave Narratives

author: Norman R. Yetman
isbn: 9780486409122
publisher: Dover Publications
year: 1999
Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
author: Alexander Falconbridge
isbn: 0859630048
publisher: New York
year: Reprinted 1973
When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations

author: Robin Walker
isbn: 9780955106804
publisher: Every Generation Media
year: 2006

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A Respectable Trade

author: Philippa Gregory
isbn: 9780743272544
publisher: Washington Square Press
year: 2007
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

author: Manu Herbstein
isbn: 9781770100039
publisher: Picador Africa
year: 2007
A Mercy

author: Toni Morrison
isbn: 9780307264237
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
year: 2008
The Atlantic Sound

author: Caryl Phillips
isbn: 9780375401107
publisher: Alfred A Knopf
year: 2000
Beloved

author: Toni Morrison
isbn: 9781400033416
publisher: Vintage
year: 2004
Cambridge

author: Caryl Phillips
isbn: 9780679736899
publisher: Vintage
year: 2003

Students

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We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures

isbn: 9781845076504
publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
year: 2008
Taking Liberties: The Struggle for Britain’s Freedoms and Rights

author: Mike Ashley
isbn: 9780712350297
publisher: British Library
year: 2009
Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

author: Malorie Blackman
isbn: 9780552556002
publisher: Corgi Childrens
year: 2007

Fiction

Cat Among the Pigeons

author: Julia Golding
isbn: 9781405224239
publisher: Egmont Books
year: 2206
Jupiter Williams

author: S.I. Martin
isbn: 9780340944066
publisher: Hodder Children's Books
year: 2007
Chains

author: Frances Mary Hendry
isbn: 9780192751669
publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
year: 2000
Pirates!

author: Celia Rees
isbn: 9781582346656
publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
year: 2005
Rebel Cargo

author: James Riordan
isbn: 9781845075255
publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
year: 2007
The Door of No Return

author: Sarah Mussi
isbn: 9781416915508
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
year: 2008
The First of Midnight

author: Marjorie Darke
isbn: 9780140317619
publisher: Puffin
year: 1984

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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

African History: a Very Short Introduction

Atlas of Slavery

Before the Slave Trade: African World History in Pictures

Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire

Britain's Slave Trade

Bury the Chains: The British struggle to abolish slavery

Capitalism and Slavery

The Classic Slave Narratives

From Slavery to Citizenship

The Horrors of Slavery

The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her Book of Life

Out of Slavery: Learning about the history of Black British Caribbean People

Representing Slavery: Art, artefacts and archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum

Rough Crossings, Britain, The Slaves and the American Revolution

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Saltwater Slavery

The Shackled Continent – Africa’s Past, Present and future

Slavery to Freedom: Britain's Slave Trade and Abolition

The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 – 1870

Staying Power - The History of Black People in Britain

Taking Liberties: The Struggle for Britain’s Freedoms and Rights

Unchained Memories, readings from the Slave Narratives

Voices from Slavery, 100 Authentic Slave Narratives

When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations

Fiction

A Respectable Trade

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

A Mercy

The Atlantic Sound

Beloved

Cambridge

Students

Fact

We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures

Taking Liberties: The Struggle for Britain’s Freedoms and Rights

Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Fiction

Cat Among the Pigeons

Jupiter Williams

Chains

Pirates!

Rebel Cargo

The Door of No Return

The First of Midnight