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The Slave Trade and the Industrial Revolution

Writers: Julia Bard and David Rosenberg

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Websites

Parliament and The British Slave Trade 1600–1807
www.parliament.uk/slavetrade
This website for the Parliamentary Archives uses original source material, interwoven with narrative from expert historians, to tell the story of Parliament's complex relationship with the British slave trade.

International Slavery Museum
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/events/africom.asp
A detailed talk given by David Fleming, director of National Museums Liverpool about the city's enormous involvement in the slave trade.

Merseyside Maritime Museum
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/slavery/index.asp
Fascinating, accessible and very upsetting website telling the story of slavery.

Slavery and the Building of Britain
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/
building_britain_gallery.shtml
Very well-researched site about how the Atlantic slave trade between Britain, Africa and the Americas transformed the economy of Britain, as industry and commerce flourished on the back of its success.

The Bristol Slavery Trail
www.englandpast.net/education/bristol_index.html
A large website about how one of Britain's most beautiful cities is steeped in the terrible trade in slaves. There's a very useful archive page with downloadable images and documents.

Books

	Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams (University of North Carolina Press, 1994) Seminal and painstakingly researched history of slavery and the slave trade, and how they related to and British capitalism. Get this book

	Abolition! The Struggle to Abolish Slavery in the British Colonies by Richard Reddie (Lion Hudson, 2007) Tells the story of the slave trade in the British Empire and examines the movement to bring it to an end. Get this book

	The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by CLR James (Penguin, 2001) Describes the appalling economic realities of the Caribbean economy, the roots of the world's only successful slave revolt and the extraordinary former slave, Toussaint L'Overture, who led them. Get this book

	The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade by Michael Jordan (Sutton Publishing, 2007) Explores the personalities and the issues behind the movement to abolish first the slave trade and later the condition of slavery. Get this book

	The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano (Penguin, 2003) Olaudah Equiano's account of his kidnapping in Africa at the age of 11, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, and his years of labour on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766. Get this book

	A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin (Penguin, 2007) Setting historical documents against Walvin's historical narrative, the two layers of this account of the Atlantic slave trade trace the rise and fall of one of the most shameful chapters in British history. Get this book

	Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 by Kenneth Morgan (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt. Get this book

Films and TV programmes

	Amistad (1997) Steven Spielberg's portrayal of the 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. Get this DVD

	Beloved (2001) The film of Toni Morrison's book tracing the life of Sethe, a former slave who has rebuilt what seems to be a peaceful, productive life in Ohio, and slowly unveils the horrors of her former life. Get this book

	Daughters of the Dust (1991) Chronicles two pivotal days in the life of the Peazant family, descendants of slaves who reside on islands near South Carolina and Georgia. Get this book

	Roots (1977) The 1977 TV mini-series which told the harrowing story of one man's ancestors, starting with African warrior Kunta Kinte, captured, transported to America, stripped of his dignity, his rights, and even his name. Get this book

	Sankofa (1993) Mona, a contemporary model, is possessed by spirits lingering in the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana and travels to the past, where, as a house servant called Shola she is constantly abused by the slave master. The film, made by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, is available from Mypheduh. Films Inc, PO Box 10035 Washington DC 20018-0035 E-mail: info@sankofa.com Website: www.sankofa.com

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