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HIS 6913: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Felipe-Gonzalez)
A guide to primary and secondary sources organized by topic, covering the slave trade in Africa, the Americas, and the U.S.
Browsing the Stacks
Where in the Library will you find books focused on slavery? 
The Library of Congress classification system places the majority of books on slavery and the slave trade under the call numbers HT851-1445.
If you'd like to browse, that would be a good place to start. Look for the call number signage at the end of each row of shelves in the stacks.
Featured Books
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by Call Number: E441 .D2495 2006Publication Date: 2006Available in print or as an e-book.
The Cambridge World History of SlaveryCall Number: HT861 .C34 2011Publication Date: 2011Volumes 1 - 4
Slavery & Slave Trade before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by Call Number: HT1048 .E47 2000Available in print or as an e-book
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History by Call Number: HT1048 .C87 1998Available in print
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by Call Number: DT31 .T516 1998Available in print or as an e-book
The Geography of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Call Number: G2445.E625 E4 2010Available in print or as an e-book
The Slave Trade in Africa
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 by Available as an e-book
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives by Call Number: HT1427 .S8S58Available in print.
Slavery in the Americas
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by Call Number: F1621 .W47 2016Available in print and as an e-book
Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba by Available as an e-book
Europeans and the Atlantic Slave Trade
The U.S. Slave Trade
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Available in print and as an e-book
The Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays by Call Number: KFT1601.6.S55 L39 2010Available in print and as an e-book
Primary source material
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. "Peculiar Institution" in International Perspective by Call Number: E441 .D18 2012Available in print and as an e-book
Abolition
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition by Available as an e-book
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Call Number: HT1162 .E48 1987Available in print
Quantifying the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by Available as an e-book
Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database by Available as an e-book
Enslaved African Experiences
The Slave Ship: A Human History by Call Number: HT1322 .R42 2007
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Call Number: E441 .S65 2007Available as an e-book and in print
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African by Call Number: HT869.E6 A3 2001bAvailable in print or as an e-book.
The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey by Call Number: DA125.N4 S66 2004Available in print
