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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
A guide to primary and secondary sources organized by topic, covering the slave trade in Africa, the Americas, and the U.S.
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- Books by Topic
- Featured Books
- Slavery & Slave Trade before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- The Geography of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- The Slave Trade in Africa
- Slavery in the Americas
- Europeans and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- The U.S. Slave Trade
- Abolition
- Quantifying the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Enslaved African Experiences
- Primary Sources by Topic - Online Digital Collections
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 the slave trade under the call numbers HT851-1445.
Most books on U.S. slavery will be found under the call numbers E441-453.
If you'd like to browse, these would be good places 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 David Brion Davis
Call Number: E441 .D2495 2006Publication Date: 2006Available as an e-book and in print.The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Call Number: HT861 .C34 2011Publication Date: 2011Volumes 1 - 4
Available as an e-book and in print.
Slavery & Slave Trade before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David Eltis
Call Number: HT1048 .E47 2000Available in print or as an e-bookThe Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History by Philip D. Curtin
Call Number: HT1048 .C87 1998Available in print and as an e-book.Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by John Thornton
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 David Eltis; David Richardson; James G. Basker (Other Primary Creator); David W. Blight; David Brion Davis (Foreword 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 Toby Green
Available as an e-bookSlavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives by Suzanne Miers; Igor Kopytoff
Call Number: HT1427 .S8S58Available in print.
Slavery in the Americas
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by David Wheat
Call Number: F1621 .W47 2016Available in print and as an e-bookSlavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba by Márcia Berbel; Rafael Marquese; Tâmis Parron
Available as an e-book
Europeans and the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History by James A. Rawley; Stephen D. Behrendt
Call Number: HT985 .R38 2005Available in print and as an e-book
The U.S. Slave Trade
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
Publication Date: 2009E-bookThe Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays by Randolph B. Campbell
Call Number: KFT1601.6.S55 L39 2010Available in print and as an e-book
Primary source materialAmerican Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. "Peculiar Institution" in International Perspective by Enrico Dal Lago
Call Number: E441 .D18 2012Available in print and as an e-book
Abolition
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
Call Number: HT1162 .E48 1987Available in print
Quantifying the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by Philip D. Curtin
Call Number: HT975 .C8Available in print and as an e-book
Enslaved African Experiences
The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Call Number: HT1322 .R42 2007Available in print and as an e-bookSaltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood
Call Number: E441 .S65 2007Available as an e-book and in printThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano; Angelo Costanzo
Call Number: HT869.E6 A3 2001bAvailable in print or as an e-book.The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey by Randy J. Sparks
Call Number: DA125.N4 S66 2004Available in print