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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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Saltwater Slavery

By Stephanie E. Smallwood ,

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Barracoon

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

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Capitalism and Slavery
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Capitalism and Slavery

By Eric Williams ,

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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The Slave Ship

By Marcus Rediker ,

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Middle Passage
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Middle Passage

By Charles Johnson ,

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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
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Complicity

By Anne Farrow , Joel Lang , Jennifer Frank

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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
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The Empire of Necessity

By Greg Grandin ,

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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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Lose Your Mother

By Saidiya V. Hartman ,

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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger

By Barry Unsworth ,

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Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
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Transformations in Slavery

By Paul E. Lovejoy ,

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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By David Eltis , David Richardson ,

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Zong!
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Zong!

By M. Nourbese Philip ,

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Britain's Black Debt
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Britain's Black Debt

By Hilary McD. Beckles ,

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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland
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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

By Mariana Candido ,

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The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867
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The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867

By Daniel B. Domingues da Silva ,

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An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
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An Intimate Economy

By Alexandra J. Finley ,

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The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
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The Captive Sea

By Daniel Hershenzon ,

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That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
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That Most Precious Merchandise

By Hannah Barker ,

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Sugar Money
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Sugar Money

By Jane Harris ,

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The Intimacies of Four Continents
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The Intimacies of Four Continents

By Lisa Lowe ,

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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
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The Many-Headed Hydra

By Peter Linebaugh , Marcus Rediker ,

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama

By Sylviane A. Diouf ,

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Hunting Midnight
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Hunting Midnight

By Richard Zimler ,

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In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870
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In the Blood of Our Brothers

By Jesús Sanjurjo ,

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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
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The Other Slavery

By Andres Resendez ,

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Blonde Roots
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Blonde Roots

By Bernardine Evaristo ,

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The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
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The Two Princes of Calabar

By Randy J. Sparks ,

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Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry
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Bound by Bondage

By Nicole Saffold Maskiell ,

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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
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Black Atlantic

By Jake Subryan Richards (editor) , Victoria Avery (editor) ,

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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
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Reckoning with Slavery

By Jennifer L. Morgan ,

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Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
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Dark Work

By Christy Clark-Pujara ,

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Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast
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Making Money

By Colleen E. Kriger ,

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