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Slave trade

Fox-Genovese,Genovese: Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order. Paperback

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order. Paperback
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
332 pages. 2008. Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world.

Narrative of 2 Voyages To the River Sierra Leone; with: Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. Two books in one. Paperback
Christopher Fyfe, editor
viii, 222 pages, 10 illustrations. 1788, reprint 2000. Fourteen letters to a friend about her experiences, is the first published Englishwoman’s narrative of a visit to West Africa. Alexander Falconbridge’s Account of the Slave Trade describes the horrific conditions he had witnessed in West Africa.

Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816. A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry. New edition. Paperback
by A. Meredith John. 275 pages. 2004. This study of the slave plantation of Trinidad is based on the Trinidadian slave registration of 1813, 1815, and 1816, when the Registrar of Slaves recorded information on 17,087 plantation slaves.

Caribbean Slave. A Biological History. Paperback
Kenneth F. Kiple
288 pages. 2002. The balance of the book is devoted to the health of the black slave in the West Indies. Using the general health and level of nutrition of the island whites as a control, Kiple pays especially close attention to the role that nutrition played in the development of diseases. The study closes with a look at the continuing demographic difficulties of the black West Indian from the abolition of slavery

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Paperback (now hardback at paperbackprice)
Edited by Robin Law
291 pages. 2002. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved.

Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy 1660-1800. Hardbound
by Kenneth Morgan
129 pages, 3 tables, 3 maps, bibliography, index. 2001. This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt.

Long Shadows - Truth, Lies and History. Hardback
Erna Paris
495 pages. 2001. Building on conversations with people who have lived that history or who are living with its consequences, this book analyzes examples, from the legacy of American slavery to the "disappeared" in Argentina and Chile, to investigate the myths nations invent to get past the bad times in history.