Books Mentioned in “Slave Trade at Sea” Balch Library Talk

Talk January 26, 2022

Atlas of the Slave Trade, David Eltis and David Richardson

The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist

The Slave Trade, Hugh Thomas

The Slave Ship, A Human History, Marcus Rediker

The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Charles River Editors

The Other Slavery, Andres Resendez

Black Rice, Judith Carney

The Door of No Return, William St Clair

Crossings, Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade, James Walvin

The Zong, A Massacre, the Law, and the End of Slavery, James Walvin

William Wilberforce, William Hague

Final Victims, James A McMillin

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, W.E.F. Ward

Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders, Bernard Edwards

Breaking the Chains, Tom Pocock

Opposing the Slavers, Peter Grindal

Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston

Empire of Cotton, Sven Beckert

Dreams of Africa in Alabama, Sylviane Diouf

Slavery and the U.S. Navy’s Africa Squadron, Andrew C.A. Jampoler

How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith

South to Freedom, Alice Baumgartner

The Kidnapping Club, Jonathan Daniel Wells

The Ledger and the Chain, Joshua D. Rothman

The Last Slave Ships, John Harris

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie

The Final Victims, James A McMillin