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Scotland and the Slave Trade: 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act

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Bibliography and Sources

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (London, 2003)

Madge Dresser, Slavery Obscured: The Social History of Slavery in an English Provincial Port (London, 2001)

Richard Hart, Blacks in Bondage: Slaves who Abolished Slavery (Jamaica, 1980)

Richard Hart, Slaves who abolished slavery, vol. 2 Blacks in Rebellion (Jamaica, 1985)

Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (London, 2005)

Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992)

Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, or General Survey of the Ancient and Modern State of that Island (London: T. Lowndes, 1774), 3 vols; vol. 2

P.J. Marshall, ed, The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2 The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998)

'The sharer of my joys and sorrows': Alison Blyth Missionary labours and the female perspectives on slavery in the mid-nineteenth century Caribbean. (Paper presented at the 'Empires of Religion' Conference, University College, Dublin, June 2006, by Dr John McAleer)

Kenneth Morgan, Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (Cambridge, 2000)

J.R. Oldfield, Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The mobilisation of Public Opinion against the slave trade, 1787-1807 (Manchester, 1995)

Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (London, 2000)

David Richardson, The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1660-1807 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2 The Eighteenth Century, edited by P.J. Marshall (Oxford, 1998)

Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (London, 2003)

Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 (London, 1997)

James Walvin, Questioning Slavery (London, 1996)

Websites:

www.portcities.org.uk
www.understandingslavery.com
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
www.nas.gov.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/london/features/abolition

Websites with further information on the slave trade and its commemoration:

www.infoscotland.com/noplace/slavetrade
www.ltscotland.org.uk/abolition
www.direct.gov.uk/slavery
www.communities.gov.uk
www.culture.gov.uk/about_us/culture/abolition_of_slavetrade_bicentenary
www.understandingslavery.com

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