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Suggested reading

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General

African history: by Philip Curtin etc

Black cargoes: by Daniel Mannix and Malcolm Cowley

Britain and the Stuarts, 1603 to 1714: by D L Farmer

Britain’s slave empire: by James Walvin

Britain's slave trade: by S I Martin

British slavery and its abolition: 1823 to 1838: by William Law Mathieson

English historical documents 1660 to 1714: edited by A Browning

English historical documents 1714 to 1783: edited by D B Horn and Mary Ransome

Equiano the African: biography of a self-made man: by Vincent Carretta

Freedom from fear: The slave and his emancipation: by O A Sherrard

History of the Liverpool privateers: by Gomer Williams

Journal of a slave dealer: by Nicholas Owen

Memoirs of a slave trader: by Theodore Canot

Plymouth Friends: A Quaker history: by A D Selleck

Rough crossings: by Simon Schama

Sins of the fathers: by James Pope-Hennessy

Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean: by Captain Colomb

Slave ships and slaving: by George Francis Dow

Tales of the Slave Squadron: by Lieutenant Warneford

The Annual register or a view of the history of politics, and literature, for the year 1807

The Annual register or a view of the history of politics, and literature, of the year 1833

The early Stuarts, 1603 to 1660: by Godfrey Davies

The forgotten trade: by Nigel Tattersfield

The journal of a slave trader: by Bernard Martin and Mark Spurrell

The journal of George Fox: by George Fox

The last years of the English slave trade: by Averil MacKenzie-Grieve

The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African: by Olaudah Equiano

The Navy and the slave trade: by Christopher Lloyd

The principle navigations... of the English Nation: by Richard Hakluyt

The shameful trade: by F George Kay

The transatlantic slave trade: by James A Rawley

Wilberforce: by John Pollock

William Wilberforce: by Robin Furneaux

William Wilberforce and his times: by Oliver Warner

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John Hawkins

A sea-dog of Devon: by R A J Walling

Hawkins of Plymouth: edited by James A Williamson

Knights of the sea: A Viking family: by C R Prance

Plymouth Armada heroes: The Hawkins family: by Mary W S Hawkins

Sir John Hawkins: by Philip Gosse

Sir John Hawkins: by R A J Walling

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's slave trader: by Harry Kelsey

Sir John Hawkins: sailor, statesman, hero: by R N Worth

The Hawkins dynasty: Three generations of a Tudor family: by Michael Lewis

Voyages of the Elizabethan seamen to America: edited by Edward Payne

Sir John Hawkins: the time and the man: by James A Williamson

The defeat of John Hawkins: by Rayner Unwin

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Francis Drake

Drake: by Ernie Bradford

Drake: For God, Queen, and plunder: by Wade G Dudley

Drake: the life and legend of an Elizabethan hero: by Stephen Coote

Francis Drake: by Neville Williams

Francis Drake, privateer: edited by John Hampden

Francis Drake: lives of a hero: by John Cummins

Sir Francis Drake: by E F Benson

Sir Francis Drake: by Julian Corbett

Sir Francis Drake: by George M Thomson

Sir Francis Drake: by John Sugden

Sir Francis Drake: by Peter Whitfield

Sir Francis Drake: the Queen’s pirate: by Harry Kelsey

That rare captain: Sir Francis Drake: by Frank Knight

The life of Francis Drake: by A E W Mason

The life, voyages and exploits of Sir Francis Drake: by John Barrow


Learn more about slavery and abolition and the Plymouth connection:

John Hawkins

Origins of the English Slave Trade
Hawkins' First Slavery Voyage
Hawkins' Second Slavery Voyage
Lovell and Drake
Hawkins' Third Slavery Voyage
Deaths of Hawkins and Drake

Slave Trade Triangle

New World Colonies
Slave Ships in Plymouth

Abolition

Quakers
The Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Gustavus Vassa: Olaudah Equiano
Parliamentary Struggle
Beyond 1807

Conclusion

Glossary

Suggested reading

Slavery and abolition web links


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