Week 1: African society and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Gobbets
- The Life of Gustavus Vassa
- Letters of Henry Laurens
Other Sources
Donnan, Elizabeth, Documents illustrative of the slave trade 4 vols
Questions
What were the main characteristics of West African society before white contact? Why did Europeans take slaves from Africa instead of elsewhere? Why did the English get involved? What was the reaction of West Africans to the slave trade?
Core Reading
- Paul Lovejoy, S&A (2006)
- Vincent Caretta, S&A (2007)
- Paul Lovejoy, S&A (2007)
E-resources
- Klein, Herbert, [ebook]
- Law, Robin
- Curtin, Philip D.
- O'Malley, Gregory E. WMQ (Jan 2009)
- Crane, E, 'The first wheel of commerce: Newport RI, and the slave trade, 1760-76' S&A 1 (1980), 178-198
- Jones, A, 'The Rhode Island slave trade: a trading advantage in Africa' S & A 2 (1981), 227-244
- Eltis, David, 'Fluctuations in the age and sex ratios in the 19thC transatlantic slave traffic' S&A 7 (1986), 257-272
- Deyle, Steven, 'By far the most profitable trade: slave trading in British colonial North America' S&A 10 (1989), 107-125
- McGowan, W, 'African Resistance to the Atlantic slave trade in W. Africa' S&A 11 (1990), 5-29
- Richardson, D, 'The British slave trade to colonial South Carolina' S&A 12.2 (1991), 125-172
- Westbury, Susan, 'Analysing a regional slave trade: the West Indies and Virginia, 1698-1775' S&A 7 (1986), 241-156
- Lovejoy, Paul E., 'Unfree labour in the development of the Atlantic World'. S&A 15.2 (1994)
- Conrad, David, 'Slavery in Bembara Society: Segou 1712-1861' S&A 2 (1981), 69-80
Additional reading
- McEwan, P, Africa from early times to 1800 (sec 8 & 9)
- Hallett, Robin, Africa to 1875 (ch 7)
- Blake, John W, European beginnings in West Africa, 1454-1578 (ch 5)
- Fage, J D, A History of West Africa (ch 6)
- Davidson, Basil, Black mother, Africa: the years of trial (pt 1 & 2)
- 'The Atlantic Slave Trade' in Gad Heuman (ed.), The Slavery Reader (ch 1-4)
- Klein, Herbert S., The Atlantic Slave Trade
- Thomas, Hugh, The story of the Atlantic slave trade
- Rawley, James A., The transatlantic slave trade
- Thompson, Vincent, The making of the African diaspora in the Americas, 1491-1900 (pt 1)
- Reynolds, Edward, Stand the storm: a history of the Atlantic slave trade
- Blake, John, Europeans in West Africa, 1450-1560 2 vols
- Goode, K G, From Africa to the United States