Secondary Sources

Bloy, Marjie, Ph.D. “The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain.” Victorian Web. N.p., 13 Dec.

2010. Web. 30 Jan. 2011. This website provided a timeline and well as analysis of the

social atmosphere at the time.

Carretta, Vincent. Equiano, the African. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Print. This was an acclaimed biography of Equiano, who was an instrumental part of the

abolition. It also contains historical context of the time period.

Craton, Michael. Sinews of Empire: A short history of British slavery. Garden City, New York:

Anchor Press, 1974. Print. A full history of British slavery, this book also provided

economic as well as social information. It helped with historical context as well.

Drescher, Seymour. From Slavery to Freedom. New York, N.Y.: New York University Press,

1999. Print. This source provided many dates and statistics, as well as the overall story of

the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.

Etlis, David, and James Walvin. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Madison, Wisconsin:

The University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Print. Provides the full story of the abolition of

the slave trade. It has multiple references to the major abolitionists in Britain.

Kaye, Mike. “Abolition.” British History. BBC, June 2010. Web. 21 Feb. 2011.

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/>. The BBC website had profiles of the

major abolitionists, as well as a helpful interactive map. This was all very helpful with

details as well as putting the issue in the big picture.

Simkin, John. “William Wilberforce: Biography.” Spartacus Educational. N.p., 2008. Web. 30

Jan. 2011. This was a full sotry of the life of William Wilberforce, one of the major faces

of the abolition of the slave trade. It highlighted the achievements of this great debater.
Walvin, James. “Abolishing the Slave Trade.” Issue 12: Slavery. History in Focus, Spring 2007.

Web. 21 Feb. 2011. <http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Slavery/articles/walvin.html>.

This was an overview of the economic causes and implications of the abolition. It

provided a view into the monetary side of the issue.

Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. N.p.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

Print. This book contends that instead of being a humanitarian effort, the abolition of the

Slave Trade was primarily an economic concern. He points out that abolition occurred

around industrialization, and was merely a shifting of the economic landscape.