If you'd like to find out more about the slave trade, take a look at our selection of books which you may find of interest.

Black England: Life before Emancipation, by Gretchen Gerzina, published by Allison and Bushby, 1999, ISBN: 0749003138

Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire, by James Walvin, Blackwell publishing, 2001, ISBN:0-631229604

Making the Black Atlantic:Britain and the African Diaspora, by James Walvin, Leicester University Press, 2000, ISBN: 030470217X

Oxford Companion to Black British History, by David Dabydeen and John Gilmore (eds.),(Oxford University Press, for publication March 2007) ISBN

Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, by Peter Fryer, Pluto Press, 1984, ISBN: 0-86104-749-4

The Atlantic Slave Trade, Klein, Herbert, S., (Cambridge University Press, 1999) ISBN: 0 521 46588 5

The Forgotten Trade: comprising the log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and accounts of the slave trade from the minor ports of England, 1698-1725, by Nigel Tattersfield (Pimlico, 1998) ISBN: 0712673431

The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth-Century Lancaster, by Melinda Elder, (Ryburn, now Edinburgh University Press, 1992) ISBN: 1 85331 030 1 

Whitehaven and the eighteenth-century British Slave Trade, Richardson, David and Schofield, Maurice M.,Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological and Antiquarian Society, vol. XCII