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Atlantic Slave Trade

Burnside, Madeleine. Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century. Simon & Schuster, 1997. A true tale of the enslaved, gleaned from the wreck of the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank off the Florida keys 300 years ago.

Feelings, Tom. The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo. Dial, Penguin Putnam, 1995. 2001. Powerful and provocative illustrations capture the pain and passion of the transport of African slaves. Suitable for high school discussion.

Harms, Robert W. The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Basic, 2001. Based on a recently discovered private journal of a French slave ship officer in the 18th century.

Phillips, Caryl. The Atlantic Sound. Random House, 2001. A skillful weave of analysis and narrative that explores the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade.

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. ABC-CLIO, 1997. Quick access to all aspects of slavery and its history.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Survey of the origins, development, and collapse of the slave trade.

Walvin, James. Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora. Continuum, 2000. Examines the British role in the shaping and direction of the African slave trade.

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