Slavery and Abolition

Suggested Reading

General     |     John Hawkins     |     Francis Drake

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English historical documents 1660 to 1714: edited by A Browning

English historical documents 1714 to 1783: edited by D B Horn and Mary Ransome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

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Learn more about slavery and abolition and the Plymouth connection:

John Hawkins

Slave Trade Triangle

Abolition

Conclusion

Glossary

Suggested reading

Slavery and abolition web links

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