1st Edition

African Slave Trade and Its Suppression A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles

By Peter C. Hogg Copyright 2006
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2005. The task of compiling a bibliography of the African slave trade is a difficult one as the literature comprises books, pamphlets and periodical articles in a variety of languages from the sixteenth century to the present day. This title aspires to present a representative selection of the material available and serve as a guide to the main categories of printed material on... Read more

Introduction

PART ONE: SLAVE TRADE

1. Collections of evidence

2. General accounts

3. West Africa

4. Sudan

5. East Africa

6. Slaving Voyages

7. Medical Conditions

8. Laws and official documents

9. Economic controversy

10. Economic history

11. Biographies of slaves

12. Ethnic origins of slaves

PART TWO: ABOLITION AND ITS SUPPRESSION

13. Abolition controversy

14. Sermons

15. Legislative debates and speeches

16. Suppression controversy

17. Abolition societies and conferences

18. Laws and official documents

19. Naval blockade

20. Trials for illegal slave trading

21. military action

22. History of the abolition movement

23. History of the abolition literature

24. Legal history

25. Biographies of abolitionists

26. Imaginative literature

Biography

Peter C. Hogg