Slave trade and abolition – book list
Canot, Theadore (1854) Memoirs of a Slave Trader; London, Jonathan Cape.
Colomb, Capt RN (1873) Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean: A Record of Naval Experiences; London,
Longmans, Green and Co.
Dow, George Francis (1969) Slave Ships and Slaving, Port Washington NY, Kennikat Press Inc.
Equiano, Olaudah (2003) The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (edited and with an introduction by
Vincent Carretta); London, Penguin Books.
Furneaux, Robin (1974) William Wilberforce; London, Hamish Hamilton.
Howell, Raymond C (1987) The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade; London, Croom Helm.
Kay, F. George (1967) The Shameful Trade; London, White Lion Publishers Ltd.
Lloyd, Christopher (1949) The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the
Nineteenth century; London, Longmans, Green and Co.
MacKenzie-Grieve, Averil (1941) The Last Years of the English Slave Trade: Liverpool 1750 to 1807;
London, Putnam and Co.
Mannix, Daniel P and Cowley, Malcolm (1963) Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1518 to
1865; London, Longmans.
Mansfield, JS (1851) Remarks on The African Squadron; London, James Ridgway and James McBain.
Martin, Bernard and Spurrell, Mark (eds.) (1962) The Journal of the Slave Trade, John Newton, 1750 to
1754: with Newton’s thoughts upon the African Slave Trade; London, Epworth Press.
Martin, SI (1999) Britain’s Slave Trade; London, Channel 4 Books.
Mathieson, William Law (1926) British Slavery and its Abolition, 1823 to 1838; London, Longmans, Green
and Co.
Owen, Nicholas (1930) Journal of a Slave Dealer: a view of some remarkable axcedents in the life of Nics.
Owen on the coast of Africa and America from the year 1746 to the year 1757 (edited by Evelin Martin);
London, George Routledge and Sons.
Pollock, John (1977) Wilberforce; London, Constable.
Pope-Hennessey, James (1967) Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders: 1441 to 1807;
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Rawley, James A (1981) The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A History; London, WW Norton and Company.
Sherrard, OA (1959) Freedom From Fear: The Slave and His Emancipation; London, Bodley Head.
Tattersfield, Nigel (1991) The Forgotten Trade: comprising the log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and
accounts of the Slave Trade from the minor ports of England, 1698 to 1725; London, Jonathan Cape.
Walvin, James (2000) Britain’s Slave Empire; Stroud, Tempus.
Warmeford, Lieut RN (1847) Tales of the Slave Squadron; London, Charles H Clarke.
Warner, Oliver (1962) William Wilberforce and His Times; London, BT Batsford.
Williams, Gomer (1897) History of the Liverpool Privateers and the Letters and Marque, with an Account of
the Liverpool Slave Trade; London, William Heinemann.
Hawkins - selected books
Gosse, Philip (1930) Sir John Hawkins (The Golden Hind series); London, John Lane and the Bodley Head.
Hawkins, Mary WS (1888) Plymouth Armada Heroes: The Hawkins Family; Plymouth, William Brendon and
Son.
Kelsey, Harry (2003) Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader; London, Yale University.
Lewis, Michael (1969) The Hawkins Dynasty: Three Generations of a Tudor Family; London, George Allen
and Unwin.
Payne, Edward J (ed.) (1893) Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Selected Narratives from the
‘Principal Navigations’ of Hakluyt: Hawkins, Frobisher, Drake; Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Prance, CR (1938) Knights of the Sea: A Viking Family: The voyages and adventures of Admiral Sir John
Hawkins, maker of history, and his kin; London, Quality Press.
Unwin, Rayner (1960) The Defeat of John Hawkins: A Biography of his Third Slaving Voyage; London,
George Allen and Unwin.
Walling, RAJ Sir John Hawkins; Reprinted from the Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and
Cornwall Natural History Society, 1904 to 1905..
Walling, RAJ (1907) A Sea-Dog of Devon; London, Cassell and Company.
Williamson, James A (1927) Sir John Hawkins: the time and the man; Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Williamson, James A (1969ed.) Hawkins of Plymouth: a new history of Sir John Hawkins and of the other
members of his family prominent in Tudor England; London, Adam and Charles Black.
Worth RN (1883) Sir John Hawkins: Sailor, Statesman, Hero; Reprinted from the Transactions of the
Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, vol. XV, pp. 246 to 285.
Drake - selected books
Barrow, John (1844) The Life, Voyages and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake; London, John Murray.
Benson, EF (1927) Sir Francis Drake; London, John Lane and the Bodley Head.
Bradford, Ernle (1965) Drake; London, Hodder and Staughton.
Coote, Stephen (2003) Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero; London, Simon and Schuster.
Corbett, Julian (1898) Sir Francis Drake; London, Macmillan.
Cummings, John (1995) Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero; London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Dudley, Wade G (2003) Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder; Washington, D.C., Brassey’s.
Hampden, John (ed.) (1972) Francis Drake, Privateer: Contemporary Narratives and Documents; London,
Eyre Methuen.
Kelsey, Harry (1998) Sir Francis Drake: The Queen’s Pirate; London, Yale University Press.
Knight, Frank (1970) The Rare Captain: Sir Francis Drake; London, Macdonald.
Mason, AEW (1941) The Life of Francis Drake; London, Hodder and Staughton.
Sugden, John (1990) Sir Francis Drake; London, Barrie and Jenkins.
Thomson, George M (1972) Sir Francis Drake; London, Secker and Warburg.
Whitfield, Peter (2004) Sir Francis Drake; London, The British Library.
Williams, Neville (1973) Francis Drake; London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.