The Transatlantic Slave Trade
and Emigrants in Bondage:
A Selective Bibliography
British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968.
REF HT1161 .I73 O
Consists of 96 volumes. 1-7. Reports from select committees, 1810-71 -- 8. Instructions to naval
officers, 1844 -- 9-(22, 24-54, 56-60.) Correspondence relative to the slave trade, 1823- -- 6(465, 67-70, 72-89, 91-92.)
Burnside, Madeleine. Spirits of the Passage: the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century.
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997. REF HT1322 .B87 1997
Charles, Joan. Slave Ship Movement from 1744-1820: Compiled from Lloyd's List, London, London
Times, London, Salem Mercury, Salem, Massachusetts: In Narrative and Chart Form.
Hampton, Va.: The Author, c1998. HT1322 .C52 1998
Clarkson, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the
African Slave-trade by the British Parliament. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808.
RARE HT1162 .C6
Coldham, Peter Wilson. Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore Md.: Genealogical
Publishing Co., 1988. CS61 .C65 1988
Conneau, Thephile. Adventures of an African Slaver : Being a True Account of the Life of Captain
Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as Told
in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer & now edited. London: G. Routledge, 1928. HT1322 .M42
Davidson, Basil. The African Slave Trade. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. HT1322 .D39 1980
Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. New York: Octagon Books,
1965. E441 .D69
Consists of four volumes: v. 1. 1441-1700 -- v. 2. The eighteenth century -- v. 3. New England
and the Middle Colonies -- v. 4. The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies.
Dow, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving. Salem, Ma.: Marine Research Society, 1927.
HT1322 .D74
Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt. The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of
America, 1638-1870. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. E441 .D81
Eltis, David and James Walvin, eds. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in
Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
HT855 .A26 1981
Everett, Susanne. History of Slavery. Edison, N.J: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1999, [1991].
E441 .K44 1999
Chapter II: Black Ivory: The West African Slave Trade 16th Century – 19th Century.
Falconbridge, Alexander. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. London: Printed by
J. Phillips, 1788. RARE HT1033 .F18
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for East Florida, 1764-1769: in the
Public Record Office, London. London: The Office, 1764-1769.
MICROFORM HE752.F6 N39 1962
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for Georgia, 1752-1767: in the
Public Record Office, London. London: The Office, 1762-1767.
MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1967
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for Maryland, 1689-1754: in the
Public Record Office, London. London: The Office, 1762-1767.
MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1970
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for Massachusetts, 1686-1765: in the
Public Record Office, London. London: The Office, 1762-1767.
MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1968
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for New Hampshire, 1723-1769: in the
Public Record Office, London. London: The Office, 1762-1767.
MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1966
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for New Jersey, 1722-1764: in the
Public Record Office, London/ Introduction by W. E. Minchinton. London: The Office, 17621767. MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1967
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for New York, 1713-1766: in the
Public Record Office, London/ Introduction by W. E. Minchinton. London: The Office, 17621767. MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1967
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for South Carolina 1716-1767: in the
Public Record Office, London.. London: The Office, 1762-1767.
MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1966
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Naval Office Shipping List for Virginia, 1698-1769: in the
Public Record Office, London. London: The Office, 1762-1767.
MICROFORM HE752.G4 N39 1966
Green, Barbara Layenette, 1950-. Slaves, Ships and Citizenship: Congressional Response to the
Coastwise Slave Trade and Status of Slaves on the High Seas, 1830-1842. Thesis (M.A.) North
Texas State University, 1975. HT985 .G73
Howard, Thomas. Black Voyage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Boston:
Little, Brown, [1971]. HT1322 .H65
Lloyd, Christopher. The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the
Nineteenth Century. [London]: Cass, [1949]. HT1162 .L58
Manning, Patrick. Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of Forced Labour. Hampshire;
Brookfield, Vt., USA: Variorum, 1996. HT985 .S53 1996
Mannix, Daniel Pratt. Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865. New York:
Viking Press, [1962]. HT1049 .M2
Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.). Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the
Making of the Americas. Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with
The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va., 2002. HT1322 .C37 2002
Minchinton, Walter E. Virginia Slave-Trade Statistics, 1698-1775. Richmond: Virginia State Library,
1984. E445.V8M56 1984
Newton, John. The Journal of a Slave Trader: (John Newton) 1750-1754 ; With, Newton's Thoughts
Upon the African Slave Trade. London: Epworth Press, [1962]. HT1322 .N4
Original Lists of Emigrants in Bondage from London to the American Colonies, 1719-1744. Baltimore,
Md.: Magna Carta Book Co., 1981, ©1967. E187.5 .K33
Smith, Abbot Emerson. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1707
-1776. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture of
Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1947. HD4875.U5 S65 1947
Svalesen, Leif. The Slave Ship Fredensborg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
HT1322 .S93 2000
Swem, E.G. Virginia Historical Index. Roanoke, Va.: Stone Printing & Mfg. Co.,1934-36.
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Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster, 1997. HT985 .T47 1997
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: a database on CD-ROM. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
1999. REF HT1322 .T73 1999
Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866.
Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes
interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying
data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and
the geographic trajectory of each voyage.
Walvin, James. Britain's Slave Empire. Stroud: Tempus, 2000. HT1162 .W35 2000
Westbury, Susan Alice. “Colonial Virginia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.” Ph.D. diss., University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981. E445.V8 W47 1981.
Wood, Betty. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. E446 .W66 1997
Note: Two other related bibliographies of additional sources are:
African-Americans in Maritime History. Compiled by Bill Edwards-Bodmer, July 2008
Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Selective Bibliography of Rare Atlases,
Narratives and Histories. Compiled by Christopher Wyckoff, August 2000
Compiled by Cathy Williamson, December 2001; Updated by Elaine Killam, February, 2010