Daily Beast Source List!
You’ve probably landed here because you caught my article in the Daily Beast—thanks for reading to the bottom!—but if not, that’s what linked mid-sentence. Below is a list of additional sources I consulted in the course of writing the article, though I reserve the right to add more if I missed them, have explicitly left space for interesting related things at the bottom of the post, and will be adding links to online resources where I can. Since the article is live and a source list was promised, however, I’m getting at least this bit published ASAP.
Note: I did not include my own book—because that seems silly, you’re already on my page—though obviously I did aggressively mine it for internal citations.
Dubois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870
Eltis, “The British Contribution to the Nineteenth Century Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” Economic History Review 32, no. 2 (1979)
Eltis, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Follett, “‘Lives of Living Death’: The Reproductive Lives of Slave Women in the Cane World of Louisiana.” Slavery & Abolition 26, no. 2 (2005)
Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860
Gøbel, The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Kaminski (ed.), A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution
Law & Mann, “West Africa in the Atlantic Community: The Case of the Slave Coast,” William and Mary Quarterly 56, no. 2 (1999)
Lloyd, The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860
Rothman, The Ledger and the Chain
Strickrodt, Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c.1550–c.1885
Tadman, “The Demographic Cost of Sugar: Debates on Slave Societies and Natural Increase in the Americas,” The American Historical Review 105, no. 5 (2000)
Thomas, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440–1870
Tinnie, “ The Slaving Brig Henriqueta and Her Evil Sisters: A Case Study in the 19th-Century Illegal Slave Trade to Brazil.” Journal of African American History 93 (2008)
Sullivan, Anthony. Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron 1807–1867.
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Because knowledge is power, yo.