Web Resources

• Slaves' Stories - follow four Africans on their harrowing journeys into slavery with our interactive online feature
• Understanding Slavery - a free online teaching resource
• Centre for the Study of International Slavery - a new slavery research centre founded by the University of Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool, with details of upcoming lectures, seminars, and workshops
• Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600 - 1807 - this complex relationship is explored, with online access to all of the key documents in the archives including the 1807 Act and slave trade petitions. The learning section includes lesson plans and tools for creating interactive resources
• The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE)
• The African-American Mosaic - a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• B Davis Scwartz Memorial Library - online resources on slavery
• H-Slavery Discussion Network - studies in the world history of slavery, abolition and emancipation
• Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture - part of the New York Public Library
• African-American History - a selection of learning activities on the internet
• New York Historical Society - features on slavery and its impact on the people, landscape, institutions and economy of New York City
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• The Equiano Project - celebrating the life and times of the 18th century writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, with the Equiano Society and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/ - contains biographical information about most of the people mentioned in this website.
  
• Revolutionary Players: www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk - see the Theme section:
  The Midlands and the World for an illustrated essay 'The Lunar Society and the Anti-slavery Debate' and Learning Journeys for an interactive activity on anti-slavery in the West Midlands.
  

General

• Blackburn, R, 'The Making of New World Slavery : From the Baroque to the Modern 1492 - 1800', London, 1997
• Patterson, O, 'Slavery and Social Death: A comparative study', Cambridge, Mass., 1982
• Reynolds, E, 'Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade', Chicago, 1985
• Thomas, H, 'The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 - 1870', London, 1997
• Tibbles, A, 'Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity', London, 1994
• Walvin, J, 'Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery', London, 1992
• Williams, E, 'Capitalism and Slavery, North Carolina', 1944
• Bishop, David, "Some common bond": aspects of Birmingham's black international history' in Grosvenor, Ian, Mclean, Rita and Roberts, Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, Birmingham, Black Pasts, Birmingham Futures Group, 2002
• Dick, Malcolm, 'Joseph Priestley, the Lunar Society and Anti-slavery' in Dick, Malcolm (ed.), Joseph Priestley and Birmingham, Studley, 2005
• Grosvenor, Ian, Roberts, Sian and Tait, Fiona, 'Making Connections: Birmingham, West Africa, West Indies and the Indian sub-continent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' in Grosvenor, Ian, Mclean, Rita and Roberts, Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, Birmingham, Black Pasts, Birmingham Futures Group, 2002
• Loggie, Val, McArdle, Jane and McLean, Rita, 'Soho House and Matthew Boulton; making new connections" in Grosvenor, Ian, Mclean, Rita and Roberts, Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, Birmingham, Black Pasts, Birmingham Futures Group, 2002
• Smith, Barbara M. D., 'The Galtons of Birmingham: Quaker Gun Merchants and Bankers, 1702-1831', Business History, vol. ix, no 2 July 1967
• Tann, Jennifer, ' Steam and Sugar: the diffusion of the stationery steam engine to the Caribbean sugar industry 1779-1840', History of Technology, 19, Nov. 1997
  

Documentary sources and memoirs

• Childers, S, editor, 'A Mariner of England: An Account of the Career of William Richardson ... [1780 to 1819] ...as told by himself', London, 1908, pp 41-75
• Donnan, E, 'Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America', 4 volumes, Washington, 1930-35
• Edwards, P, 'The Life of Olaudah Equiano', London, 1988
• Falconbridge, Alexander, 'An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa', New York, reprinted 1973
• Ferguson, M, editor, 'The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, related by herself', London, 1987
• Hall, D, 'In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-1786', London, 1989
• Jacobs, Harriet, 'Incidents in the Life of a slave girl', Oxford, 1988
• Martin, B and Spurrell, M, 'The Journal of a Slave Trader, John Newton, 1750-1754', London, 1962
• Walvin, J, 'An African's Life: Olaudah Equiano', Cassell, 1998
• Birmingham Archives and Heritage, Birmingham Central Library: Galton, Samuel, Jnr, To the Friends of the Monthly Meeting at Birmingham, 1795. Galton Papers
• Birmingham Archives and Heritage, Birmingham Central Library: Records of the Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves
• Hankin, Christiana C. (ed.), Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (Mary Anne Galton), London, Longman, third edition,1860.
  

Educational book list

• Bygott, David, 'Black and British', Oxford UP, London, 1992
• Hatt, Christine, 'Slavery: from Africa to the Americas', Evans, 1997
• Sherwood, Marika, 'Black People in the Americas', Savannah, London, 1992
• Stearman, Kaye, 'Slavery Today', (Talking Points Series) Wayland Publishers, 1999
• White, Lenford, editor, 'Slavery: An introduction to the African holocaust', Liverpool, 1996
  

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Picture Library

Sugar Nippers From:Richard Timmin& sons Accession Number: 1978F597 Abolition of  Slavery Penny Token From:John Phillip Accession Number: 2001N37 : Flint Lock Gun From:Robert Wheeler Accession Number:1990504181.00302