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Africa

Cooper, Frederick. From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980

Cooper, Frederick. Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press, 1977

Cooper, Frederick. Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1997.

Fisher, Allan and Humphrey J. Fisher. Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa. London: C. Hurst, 1999.

Fomin, E.S.D. Slave Settlements inthe Banyang Country, 1800-1950. Limbe, Camersoon: University of Buea, 1998.

Klein, Martin A. Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

Klein, Martin A. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Harris, Joseph E., ed. Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora. 2nd ed., Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1993.

Lovejoy, Paul E., ed., Africans in Bondage: Studies in slavery and the slave trade in honour of Philip D. Curtin. African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.

Lovejoy, Paul E., ed. The Ideology of Slavery in Africa. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1981

Lovejoy, Paul E. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa. African studies series; 36. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Manning, Patrick. Slavery and African life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Miers, Suzanne and Martin Klein. Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa. London: Frank Cass, 1998.

Miers, Suzanne and Igor Kopytoff. Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.

Miers, Suzanne and Richard Roberts, eds. The End of Slavery in Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Morton, Fred. Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitive Slaves on the Kenya Coast, 1873 to 1907. African modernization and development series. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.

Morton, Rodger Frederic. Slaves, Fugitives, and Freedmen on the Kenya Coast, 1873-1907. Thesis- - Syracuse University, 1976.

Mowafi, Reda. Slavery, Slave Trade, and Abolition Attempts in Egypt and the Sudan, 1820-1882. Lund studies in international history; 14. Scandinavian university books. [Stockholm]: Esselte Studium, 1981.

Nwulia, Moses D.E. Britain and Slavery in East Africa. Washignton: Three Continents Press, 1975.

Robertson, Claire C. Women and Slavery in Africa. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Samarin, William J. The Black Man's Burden: African Colonial Labor on the Congo and Ubangi Rivers, 1880-1900, Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.

Savage, Elizabeth, The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. London: F. Cass, 1992.

Searing, James F. West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: the Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1993.

Sundiata, I.K. Biafra's Isle: Fernando Po between Slaving and NeoSlavery, 1827-1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Temperley, Howard. White Dreams, Black Africa: The AntiSlavery Expedition to the River Niger, 1841-1842. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Thornton, John. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Thornton, John. Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800. London: UCL Press, 1999.

Twaddle, Michael, ed. The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Carribbean and England. London; Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1993.

Watson, James L. Asian and African Systems of Slavery. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980.

Willis, John Ralph, ed. Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa. London: Frank Cass, 1985.

Wright, Marcia. Strategies of Slaves & Women: Life-Stories from East/Central Africa. New York: L. Barber Press, 1993 .

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Egypt

Elbashir, Ahmed E. The United States, Slavery, and the Slave Trade in the Nile Valley. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983.

Mowafi, Reda, Slavery, Slave Trade and Abolition Attempts in Egypt and the Sudan, 1820-1882. Lund studies in international history; 14. Scandinavian university books. Stockholm: Esselte Studium, 1981.

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Liberia

Belcher, Max. A Land and Life Remembered: Americo-Liberian Folk Architecture. Athens: University of Georgia, 1988.

Howard, Lawrence C. American Involvement in Africa South of the Sahara, 1800-1860. New York: Garland, 1988.

McDaniel, Antonio. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1995.

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Mauritius

Barker, Anthony J. Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.

Nwulia, Moses D. E. The History of Slavery in Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1810-1875. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1981.

Teelock, Vijaya. Bitter Sugar: Sugar and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Mauritius. Moka: Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 1998.

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Morocco

Ennaji, Mohammed. Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Nigeria

Acholonu, Catherine Obianuju. The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano. Owerri: AFA, 1989.

Lovejoy, Paul E. Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936. African studies series; 76. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

O'Hear, Ann. Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1997.

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Somalia

Besteman, Catherine Lowe. Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

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South Africa

Bank, Andrew. The Decline of Urban Slavery at the Cape, 1806 to 1843. Communications; no. 22/1991. Rondebosch, South Africa: Centre for African Studies, 1991.

Eldredge, Elizabeth A. Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier. [African modernization and development]. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Scully, Pamela. Liberating the Family-: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1997.

Shell, Robert Carl-Heinz. Children of Condage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1994.

Watson, R. L. (Richard Lyness). The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa. [Middletown, CT]: Wesleyan University Press; Hanover: University Press of New England, 1990.

Worden, Nigel. The Chains that Bind Us: A History of Slavery at the Cape. Kenwyn: Juta, 1996.

Worden, Nigel. Slavery in Dutch South Africa. African studies series; 44. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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The Americas (General Works)

Berlin, Berlin, ed. Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas. Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black Studies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Berlin, Ira, ed., The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas. London, England; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass, 1991.

Binder, Wolfgang ed. Slavery in the Americas. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1993.

Cohen, David W., ed. Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedmen of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.

Conniff, Michael L. Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Engerman, Stanley L. and Eugene D. Genovese, eds. Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Comparative Issues in Slavery. New York: Garland Press, 198.

Genovese, Eugene D. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro- American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Genovese, Eugene D., ed. The Slave Economies. New York: Wylie, 1973.

Hoetink, H. Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Rubin, Vera, ed. Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1977.

Thompson, Vincent. The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas, 1441-1900. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1987.

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Canada

Bertley, Leo W. Canada and its People of African Descent. Pierrefonds, Que.: Bilongo Publishers, 1977.

Govia, Francine and Helen Lewis. Blacks in Canada: In Search of the Promise: A Bibliographical Guide. Edmonton: Harambee Centres Canada, 1988.

Hill, Daniel G. The Freedom-Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. Agincourt: Book Society of Canada, 1981.

Hornby, Jim. Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island's Historical Black Community. Island studies; no. 3. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Institute of Island Studies, 1991.

Tulloch, Headley. Black Canadians: A Long Line of Fighters. Toronto: NC Press, 1975.

Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada; A History. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1971.

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Latin America and the Caribbean (General Works)

Cardoso, Gerald. Negro Slavery in the Sugar Plantations of Veracruz and Pernambuco 1550-1680: A Comparative Study. Thesis-University of Nebraska.

Davis, Darien, Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1995.

Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 198.

Knight, Franklin W. The African Dimension in Latin American Societies. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Mellafe R., Rolando. Negro Slavery in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

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Antigua

Gaspar, David Barry. Bondmen & Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua, With Implications for Colonial British America. The Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Smith, Samuel. To Shoot Hard Labour: The Life and Times of Samuel Smith, An Antiguan Workingman, 1877-1982. Scarborough, Ont., Canada: Edan's Publishers, 1986.

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Argentina

Johnson, Lyman L. The Development of Slave and Free Labor Regimes in Late Colonial Buenos Aires, 1770-1815. Storrs: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut, 1997.

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Bahamas

Johnson, Howard. The Bahamas in Slavery and Freedom. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; London: James Currey Publishers, 1991.

Saunders, Gail. Bahamian Loyalists and their Slaves. London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1983.

Saunders, Gail. Slavery in the Bahamas, 1648-1838. [Nassau-]: D.G. Saunders, 1985.

Saunders, Hartley Cecil. The Other Bahamas. 1st ed. Nassau, Bahamas: Bodab Publishers, 1991.

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Barbados

Beckles, Hilary. Afro-Caribbean Women & Resistance to Slavery in Barbados. Karnak History. Women studies. London: Karnak House, 1988.

Beckles, Hilary. Black Rebellion in Barbados: The Struggle against Slavery, 1627-1838. Bridgetown, Barbados: Carib Research & Publications, 1987.

Emancipation I: A Series of Lectures to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation. Barbados: The Department: The Foundation, 1986.

Handler, Jerome S. The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

Handler, Jerome S. Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Levy, Claude. Emancipation, Sugar, and Federalism: Barbados and the West Indies, 1833-1876. Latin American monographs; 2d ser., 25. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1980.

Puckrein, Gary A. Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700. New York: New York University Press, 1984.

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Bermuda

Packwood, Cyril Outerbridge. Chained on the Rock: Slavery in Bermuda. New York: E. Torres, 1975.

Smith, James Ernest. Slavery in Bermuda. 1st ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1976.

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Brazil

Barickman, B.J. A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Reconcavo, 1780-1860. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Butler, Kim D. Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Sao Paulo and Salvador. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Cardoso, Gerald. Negro Slavery in the Sugar Plantations of Veracruz and Pernambuco, 1550-1680: A Comparative Study. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. Brazilian Slavery: An Annotated Research Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850-1888. 2nd ed. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co., 1993.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. World of Sorrow: The African Slave trade to Brazil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.

Degler, Carl N. Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

Eisenberg, Peter L. The Sugar Industry in Pernambuco; Modernization Without Change, 1840-1910. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974.

Hellwig, David, J. African-American Reflections on Brazil's Racial Paradise. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

Hellwig, David J. Brazil and the World System. Critical reflections on Latin America series. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Karasch, Mary C. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Kowarick, Lucio. The Subjugation of Labour: The Constitution of Capitalism in Brazil. Latin America studies; 36. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: CEDLA; Providence, R.I., U.S.A.: Distributed by Foris Publications USA, 1987.

Mattoso, Katia M. de Queiros. To be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Nabuco, Joaquim. Abolitionism: The Brazilian AntiSlavery Struggle. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Reis, Joao Jose. Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Russell-Wood, A. J. R. The Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian society: Bahia, 1550-1835. Cambridge Latin American studies; 52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Scott, Rebecca J. Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Emancipation in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.

Silva, Eduardo da. Prince of the People: The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour. London; New York: Verso, 1993.

Taylor, Kit Sims. Sugar and the Underdevelopment of Northeastern Brazil, 1500-1970. University of Florida monographs. Social sciences; no. 63. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1978.

Toplin, Robert Brent. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil. Studies in American Negro life. Atheneum; NL34. 1st Atheneum paperback ed., College ed. New York: Atheneum, 1975.

Toplin, Robert Brent. Freedom and Prejudice: The Legacy of Slavery in the United States and Brazil. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies; no. 56. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

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Caribbean (General and Comparative Works)

Association of Caribbean Historians. Some Papers on Social, Political and Economic Adjustments to the Ending of Slavery in the Caribbean: presented at the seventh annual conference of Caribbean historians, April 2nd-8th, 1975, U. W. I., Mona, Jamaica. [s.l.: s.n., 1975-].

Beckles, Hilary. Centering Woman: Gender Relations in Caribbean Slave Society. Oxford: James Currey, 1999.

Beckles, Hilary. Inside Slavery: Process and Legacy in the Caribbean Experience. Mona: University of the West Indies, 1996.

Bolland, O. NIgel. Struggles for Freedom: Essays on Slavery, Colonialism, and Culture in the Caribbean and Central America. Belize: Angelus Press, 1997.

Burn, William Laurence. Emancipation and Apprenticeship in the British West Indies. Reprints in social and economic history. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.

Burton, Richard D.E. Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Butler, Kathleen Mary. The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica & Barbados, 1823-1843. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Cox, Edward L. Free Coloreds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitts and Grenada, 1763-1833. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Craton, Michael. Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston: Ian Randle Pub., 1997.

Fraginals, Manuel Moreno, ed. Between Slavery and Free Labor: the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Gaspar, David Barry and David P. Geggus. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Goveia, Elsa V. Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Caribbean series, 8. Yale University Press, 1965.

Green, William A. British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment 1830-1865. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press, 1976.

Hall, N. A. T. Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Hayward, Jack. Out of Slavery: Abolition and After. Legacies of West Indian Slavery. London, England; Totowa, N.J.: F. Cass, 1985.

Higman, B. W. Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Kale, Madhavi. Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Kiple, Kenneth F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. Studies in environment and history. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

McDonald, Roderick A. West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy. Barbados: The Press, University of the West Indies, 1996.

McLewin, Philip J. Power and Economic Change: The Response to Emancipation in Jamaica and British Guiana, 1840-1865. South American and Latin American economic history. New York: Garland, 1987.

Martinez-Fernandez, Luis. Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Caribbean Transformations. Morningside ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Mullin, Michael. Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Munford, Clarence J. The Black Ordeal of Slavery and Slave Trading in the French West Indies, 1625-1715. Lewiston, N.Y., USA: E. Mellen Press, 1991.

Ome, Aiyegoro. The Story of Emancipation. 1st ed. Port of Spain, Trinidad: National Action Cultural Committee, 1989.

Paiewonsky, Isidor. Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies: also Graphic Tales of other Slave Happenings on Ships and Plantations. New York: Fordham University Press, 1989.

Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1993.

Richardson, David, ed., Abolition and its Aftermath: The Historical Context, 1790-1916. Legacies of West Indian Slavery. London, England; Totowa, N.J.: F. Cass, 198.

Stinchcombe, Arthur L. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Titus, Noel. The Church and Slavery in the English-Speaking Caribbean. CGSRS; no. 2, 1983. [Barbados, West Indies]: Caribbean Group for Social and Religious Studies, 1983.

Twaddle, Michael. The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Carribbean and England. London; Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1993.

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Central American (General Works)

Sherman, William L. Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

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Colombia

Chandler, David L. Health and Slavery in Colonial Colombia. Dissertations in European economic history; 1981. New York: Arno Press, 1981.

Sharp, William Frederick. Slavery on the Spanish Frontier: the Colombian Choco, 1680-1810. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.

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Cuba

Casanovas, Joan. Bread, or Bullets!: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Corwin, Arthur F. Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886. Latin American monographs, no. 9. Austin, Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies by the University of Texas Press, 1967.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies; A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba. The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. ser. 89, 1. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press , 1971.

Kiple, Kenneth F. Blacks in Colonial Cuba, 1774-1899. Latin American monographs; 2d ser., 17. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976.

Klein, Herbert S. Slavery in the Americas; A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Knight, Franklin W. Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1970.

Knight, Franklin W. Slavery and the Transformation of Society in Cuba, 1511-1760: From Settler Society to Slave Society. Elsa Goveia memorial lecture; 1988. Mona, Jamaica: Dept. of History, University of the West Indies, 1988.

Paquette, Robert L. Sugar is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.

Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis). Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

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Danish West Indies

Highfield, Arnold R. Slavery in the Danish West Indies: A Bibliography. St. Croix: The Virgin Islands Humanities Council, 1994.

The Danish West Indian Slave Trade: Virgin Islands Perspectives. St. Croix, V.I.: Virgin Islands Humanities Council, 1994.

Hall, N. A. T. Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Olwig, Karen Fog. Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean life. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1985.

Paiewonsky, Isidor. Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies: Also Graphic Tales of other Slave Happenings on Ships and Plantations. [St. Thomas, V.I., USA: I. Paiewonsky, 1987.

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Guatemala

Sherman, William L. Indian Slavery in Spanish Guatemala, 1524-1550. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985.

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Guyana

Costa, Emilia Viotti da. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Haiti

Cooper, Anna J. Slavery and the French Revolutionists. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen, 1988.

Fick, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Stoddard, T. Lothrop. The French Revolution in San Domingo. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914.

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Jamaica

Armstrong, Douglas V. The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Bakan, Abigail B. (Abigail Bess). Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion. Montreal; Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.

Brathwaite, Edward. The Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica. Rev. ed. London: New Beacon Books, 1981.

Brathwaite, Kamau. The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971.

Campbell, Mavis Christine. The Dynamics of Change in a Slave Society: A Sociopolitical History of the Free Coloreds of Jamaica, 1800-1865. Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.

Campbell, Mavis Christine. The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655-1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration & Betrayal. Granby, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey, 1988.

Craton, Michael. Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Dunn, Richard S. Moravian Missionaries at Work in a Jamaican Slave Community, 1754-1835. James Ford Bell lectures, no. 32. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994.

Higman, B. W.. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland). The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

McDonald, Roderick A. (Roderick Alexander). The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

McLewin, Philip J. Power and Economic Change: The Response to Emancipation in Jamaica and British Guiana, 1840-1865. South American and Latin American economic history. New York: Garland, 1987.

Scott, Karen A. (Karen Anne). Causes of the Natural Decrease in the Jamaican Slave population, 1760-1850, and the Use of these Explanations in the Slavery Debates. Thesis (A.B., Honors)-Harvard University, 1982.

Turner, Mary. Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Patterson, Orlando. The Sociology of Slavery: An Analysis of the Origins, Development and Structure of Negro Slave Society in Jamaica. Studies in society. London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1967.

Schuler, Monica. "Alas, Alas, Kongo": A Social History of Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841-1865. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Wilmot, Swithin R. Adjustments to Emancipation in Jamaica. Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: Social History Project, Department of History, Univ. of the West Indies, 1988.

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Martinique

Tomich, Dale W. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

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Mauritius

Barker, Anthony J. Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule. Basingstoke: London: Macmillan, 1996.

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Peru

Blanchard, Peter. Slavery & Abolition in Early Republican Peru. Latin American silhouettes. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1992.

Bowser, Frederick P. The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1974.

Hunefeldt, Christine. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

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Puerto Rico

Scarano, Francisco A. (Francisco Antonio). Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico: The Plantation Economy of Ponce, 1800-1850. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Sued Badillo, Jalil. Puerto Rico Negro. 1a ed. Rio Piedras, P.R.: Editorial Cultural, 1986.

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Surinam

Heilbron, Waldo. Colonial Transformations and the Decomposition of Dutch plantation Slavery in Surinam. Caribbean culture studies; 3. London: Goldsmiths' College, University ofLondon, 1993.

Lamur, H. E. The Production of Sugar and the Reproduction of Slaves at Vossenburg (Suriname), 1705-1863. Caribbean culture studies; 1. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam Centre for Caribbean Studies, 1987.

Price, Richard. Alabi's World. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Shute, Gary Brana. Resistance and Rebellion in Suriname: Old and New. Studies in Third World societies; publication no. 43 (Nov. 1990). Williamsburg, Va.: Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1990.

Stedman, John Gabriel. Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Stedman, John Gabriel. Stedman's Surinam: Life in Eighteenth- Century Slave Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

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Trinidad

Campbell, Carl C. Cedulants and Capitulants: The Politics of the Coloured Opposition in the Slave Society of Trinidad, 1783-1838. University series; no. 1. 1st ed. Trinidad, W.I.: Paria Pub. Co., 1992.

De Verteuil, Anthony. Seven Slaves and Slavery: Trinidad, 1777-1838. [Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago-: s.n.], 1992 (Port of Spain, Trinidad, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Scrip-J Printers).

Huggins, A. B. The Saga of the Companies. Rev. enl. ed. [S.l.: s.n.], 1978 (Freeport, Trinidad, W.I.: HEM Printers).

John, A. Meredith. The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783- 1816: A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Asia

Harris, Joseph E. The African Presence in Asia; Consequences of the East African Slave Trade. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1971

Klein, Martin A. Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Reid, Anthony, ed., Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia. St. Lucia; New York: University of Queensland Press, 1983

Scarr, Deryck. Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998

Watson, James L. Asian and African Systems of Slavery. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980

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Babylonia

Dandamaev, M. A. Slavery in Babylonia: From Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 B.C.). Rev ed. / translated by Victoria A. Powell; edited by Marvin A. Powell; David B. Weisberg, co-editor. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1984.

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India

Bissoondoyal, U., ed. Slavery in South West Indian Ocean. Moka, Mauritius: Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 1989

Manickam, Sundararaj. Slavery in the Tamil Country: A Historical Over-view. Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1982

Patnaik, Utsa, ed. Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India. Madras: Sangam Books; Hyderabad, India: Distributed by Orient Longman, 1985

Pinto, Jeanette. Slavery in Portuguese India, 1510-1842. Bombay: Himalaya Pub. House, 1992

Saradamoni, K. (Kunjulekshmi). Emergence of a Slave Caste: Pulayas of Kerala. New Delhi: People's Pub. House, 1980

Ramachandran Nair, Adoor K. K. Slavery in Kerala. Delhi: Mittal Publications: Distributed by Mittal Publishers' Distributors, 1986.

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Korea

Kim, Ellen J. The Enduring Institution: A Case Study of Slavery in Traditional Korea. Thesis (A.B., Honors in East Asian Languages and Civilizations)--Harvard University, 1991.

Salem, Ellen. Slavery in Medieval Korea. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1978.

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Malaysia

Sullivan, Patrick (Patrick J.). Social Relations of Dependence in a Malay State: Nineteenth Century Perak. Monograph / The Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, no. 10. Kuala Lumpur: Printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Art Printing Works, 1982.

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Middle East and Near East

Ayalon, David. Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries. Collected studies series; CS456. Aldershot, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Variorum, 1994

Chirichigno, Gregory. Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 141. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993

Gordon, Murray. Slavery in the Arab World. New York: New Amsterdam, 1989

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990

Marmon, Shaun E. Slavery in the Islamic Middle East. Princeton: M. Wiener, 1999.

Pipes, Daniel. Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981

Toledano, Ehud R. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

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Ottoman Empire

Erdem, Hakan. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and its Demise, 1800-1909. Houdmills: Macmillan, 1996

Toledano, Ehud R. The Ottoman Slave Trade and its Suppression, 1840-1890. Princeton: Princeton University, 1982.

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Philippines

Scott, William Henry. Slavery in the Spanish Philippines. Manila, Philippines: De la Salle University Press, 1991.

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Europe

Bonnassie, Pierre. From Slavery to Feudalism in South-western Europe. Past and present publications. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1991

Bloch, Marc Leopold Benjamin. Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages: Selected Essays. Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA; 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975

Dockes, Pierre. Medieval Slavery and Liberation. London: Methuen, 1982

Jordan, William C. From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Senonais in the Thirteenth Century. The Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986

Karras, Ruth Mazo. Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia. Yale historical publications; 135. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1988.

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Ancient Greece and Rome

Bradley, K. R. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World, 140 B.C.-70 B.C. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; London: B.T. Batsford, 1989

Bradley, K. R. Slavery and Society at Rome. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Bradley, K. R. Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

Finley, M. I. (Moses I.). Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. Expanded ed. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 1998

Finley, M.I. Classical Slavery. London, England; Totowa, N.J.: F. Cass, 1987

Garlan, Yvon. Slavery in Ancient Greece. Rev. and expanded ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988

Hopkins, Keith. Conquerors and Slaves. Sociological studies in Roman history; v. 1. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978

Hughes, Kenneth. Slavery. Greek and Roman topics; 3. London: Allen & Unwin [1975]

Hunt, Peter. Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Joshel, Sandra R. and Sheila Murnaghan. Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture. London: Routledge, 1998

Vogt, Joseph. Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy. Corrected pbk. ed. London; New York: Verso, 1989

Wiedemann, Thomas E. J. Greek and Roman Slavery. London: Croom Helm, 1981

Wiedemann, Thomas E. J. Slavery. Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics; no. 19. Oxford: Published for the Classical Association at the Clarendon Press, 1987

Yavetz, Zvi. Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome. New Brunswick, N.J., USA: Transaction Books, 1988.

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Britain

Barley, Tony. Myths of the Slave Power: Confederate Slavery, Lancashire workers, and the Alabama. Liverpool: Coach House, 1992

Bean, Richard Nelson. The British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1650-1775. New York: Arno, 1975

Craton, Michael. Sinews of Empire; A Short History of British Slavery. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974

Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca: Cornell, 1982

Drescher, Seymour. Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective: The Second Anstey Memorial Lectures in the University of Kent at Canterbury, 1984. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1986

Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1977

Elder, Melinda. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth-Century Lancaster. Krumlin: Ryburn, 1992

Gerzina, Gretchen. Black England: Life Before Emancipation. London: J. Murray, 1995

Hamshere, Cyril. The British in the Caribbean. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972

Hurwitz, Edith F. Politics and the Public Conscience: Slave Emancipation and the Abolitionist Movement in Britain. Historical problems: studies and documents, 23. London, Allen & Unwin; New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1973

Jakobsson, Stiv. Am I not a Man and a Brother- British Missions and the Abolition of the Slave Trade in West Africa and the West Indies, 1786-1838. Lund: Gleerup, 1972

Mathieson, William Law. British Slave Emancipation, 1838-1849. New York: Octagon Books, 1967

Pelteret, David Anthony Edgell. Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century. Studies in Anglo-Saxon history, 7. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 1995

Shyllon, F. O. Black People in Britain, 1555-1833. London; New York: Published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press, 1977

Shyllon, F. O. Black Slaves in Britain. London, New York, published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press, 1974

Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. London: HarperCollins, 1992

Walvin, James. England, Slaves, and Freedom, 1776-1838. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986

Walvin, James. Slavery and British Society, 1776-1846. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982

Walvin, James. Slaves and Slavery: The British Colonial Experience. Manchester [England]; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992

Ward, J.R. British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1934. Oxford: Oxford Unviersity, 1988

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France

Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia). Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805). Studies in French civilization; v. 1. Lewiston, N.Y., USA: E. Mellen Press, 1988

Peabody, Sue. There are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

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Russia

Hellie, Richard. Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1985

Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge: Harvard, 1987.

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Scandinavia

Karras, Ruth Mazo. Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia. New Haven: Yale, 1988

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