Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History
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7 T H E S L A V E T R A D E : A F R I C A & T H E B R I T I S H C A R I B B E A N<br />
a) Did Britain abolish the slave trade only because its contribution to the Atlantic economy had ceased to be<br />
crucial?<br />
b) Analyse the demographic, political and socio-economic consequences <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic slave trade for West African<br />
societies.<br />
Or: How far were Africans willing agents rather than helpless victims <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic trade?<br />
Or: To what extent did African economic and political interests shape the Atlantic slave trade?<br />
(7a)<br />
The big picture<br />
PK O’Brien ‘Metanarratives in Global Histories <strong>of</strong> Progress’, International <strong>History</strong> Review 23, 2 (2001),<br />
345–67<br />
AG Hopkins (ed) Globalization in World <strong>History</strong> (2002), chapter by Drayton<br />
C Robinson ‘Capitalism, Slavery, and Bourgeois Historiography’, <strong>History</strong> Workshop Journal 23 (1987),<br />
122–40<br />
O Petré-Grenouilleau, Les Traites Negrières: Essai d’histoire globale (2004<br />
The debate<br />
E Williams Capitalism and Slavery (1944; reprint 1966)<br />
SL Engerman & ED Genovese (eds) Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere (1975), chapter by Anstey<br />
V Rubin & A Tuden (eds) Comparative Perspectives on Slavery (1977), chapters by Curtin, Anstey, & Drescher<br />
S Drescher Econocide: British Slavery in the Era <strong>of</strong> Abolition (1977)<br />
“ ‘Whose abolition? popular pressure and the ending <strong>of</strong> the British slave trade’, Past & Present<br />
138 (1993), 136–66<br />
“ ‘The long goodbye: Dutch capitalism & anti-slavery in comparative perspective’, American<br />
Hist R 99 (1994), 44–69<br />
D Eltis Economic Growth and the Ending <strong>of</strong> the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1987)<br />
“ & J Walvin (eds) The Abolition <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic Slave Trade (1981), Introduction and Part 1<br />
“ & LC Jennings ‘Trade between West Africa & the Atlantic world in the pre-colonial era’, American Hist<br />
R 93 (1988), 936–59<br />
PD Curtin The Rise and Fall <strong>of</strong> the Plantation Complex (1990)<br />
M Craton, J Walvin, & D Wright (eds) Slavery, Abolition, & Emancipation, Parts 1, 2, 4, 5<br />
L Colley Britons (1992), 350–60<br />
BL Solow (ed.) Slavery and the Rise <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic System (1991), Introduction, chapters 5 and 8<br />
“ & SL Engerman (eds) British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: the legacy <strong>of</strong> Eric Williams (1987)<br />
RL Stein The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century<br />
Ian Bancom, Specters <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy <strong>of</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
C. Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations <strong>of</strong> British Abolitionism<br />
Recent summaries<br />
N Canny OHBE, I (1998), chapter 10 by Beckles<br />
PJ Marshall OHBE, II (1998), chapter 20 by Richardson<br />
(7b)<br />
W Rodney How Europe underdeveloped Africa (1972 & later edns), chapters 3–4 for an uncomplicated<br />
view<br />
J Iliffe Africans (1995), chapter 7, for a more complex one<br />
AG Hopkins Economic <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> West Africa (1973), chapter 3<br />
P Manning Slavery and African Life (1990)<br />
J Thornton Africa and Africans in the Making <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic World (1992)<br />
N Canny (ed.) OHBE, I (1998), chapters 2 and 11<br />
JE Inikori & SL Engerman (eds.) The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economics, Societies and People . . . (1992)<br />
D Eltis & LC Jennings ‘Trade between west Africa & the Atlantic world in the pre-colonial era’, American Hist R 93<br />
(1988), 936–59<br />
P Lovejoy & D Richardson ‘British abolition and (West African) slave prices 1883–1850’, J EcHist 55 (1995)<br />
R Law (ed.) From Slave Trade to ‘Legitimate’ Commerce (1995), Introduction, chapters 1–2, 4<br />
JC Miller Way <strong>of</strong> Death: Merchant Capitalism & the Angolan Slave Trade (1988), Preface and chs 1–5,<br />
11, 19<br />
J Vansina Paths in the Rainforests (1990), chapter 7<br />
JM Janzen ‘Ideologies and institutions in African therapeutic systems’, Social Science and Medicine 13B<br />
(1979), 317–26<br />
CC Robertson & MA Klein (eds) Women and Slavery in Africa (1983)