Selected Bibliography

  • Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race (London: Verso, 1997)
  • Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
  • Stephanie Barczewski, Country houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930 (Manchester University Press, 2017)
  • Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Vintage, 2014)
  • Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, Slavery’s Capitalism, A New History of American Economic Development (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
  • Hilary Beckles, Great House Rules: Landless Emancipation and Workers’ Protest in Barbados 1838-1938 (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2004)
  • Hilary Beckles, How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean (Kingston, The University of the West Indies Press, 2021)
  • Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492–1800 (London: Verso, 1997)
  • Robin Blackburn , An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln (London: Verso, 2011)
  • Nigel Bolland, On The March : Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39 (London: James Currey, 1995)
  • Angus Calder, Revolutionary Empire: Rise of the English-speaking Empire from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s (Pimlico 1998)
  • Henderson Carter, Labour Pains: Resistance and Protest in Barbados, 1838-1904 (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2012)
  • Bill Cooke, The Denial of Slavery in Management Studies (University of Manchester 2002)
  • Steve Cushion, Sir Robert Geffrye and the Business of Slavery (Redwords, 2020)
  • Caroline Dakers (ed.) Fonthill Recovered, A Cultural History (London: UCL Press, 2018)
  • Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts (London: Verso, 2017)
  • Adrian Desmond and, James Richard Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
  • Katie Donington, The Bonds of Family : Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019)
  • Katie Donington, Nicholas Draper, Catherine Hall, Rachel Lang and Keith McClelland (eds.) Legacies of British slave ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Seymour Drescher, Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective (London: Macmillan, 1986)
  • W.E.B.Du Bois, Black reconstruction: an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, (New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1935)
  • Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann, Slavery and the British Country House (Swindon: English Heritage, 2013)
  • Richard Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
  • Martin Empson, Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History (London: Bookmarks, 2014)
  • Frederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (London: Panther, 1969)
  • Chris Evans, Slave Wales : the Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010)
  • Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery (New York: Ballantine, 2008)
  • Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: the Economics of American Negro Slavery (New York: Norton, 1974)
  • Paul Foot, Immigration and Race in British Politics (Harmonsdworth: Penguin, 1965)
  • John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000)
  • John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature : Socialism and Ecology. (New York: Monthly Review Press 2020)
  • John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift (NYU Press, 2020)
  • Peter Fryer, Black People in the British Empire (London: Pluto, 1988)
  • Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White (Eds.), Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016)
  • Katharine Gerbner, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
  • Lorenzo Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942)
  • Carl Griffin, Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
  • Richard Hart, Slaves Who Abolished Slavery (University of West Indies Press, 2002)
  • Richard Hart, From Occupation to Independence: A History of the Peoples of the English-Speaking Caribbean Region (London: Pluto, 1998)
  • Gad Heuman, “The Killing Time” : the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica (London: Macmillan, 1994)
  • Sally-Anne Huxtable, Corinne Fowler, Christo Kefalas and Emma Slocombe, Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, Including Links with Historic Slavery (National Trust, September 2020)
  • Joseph Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  • Reece Jones, Violent Borders, Refugees and the Right to Move (London: Verso, 2017)
  • Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell. Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century (London: Verso, 2006)
  • Peter Linebaugh, Stop, Thief! : The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (Oakland: PM Press, 2014)
  • Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (London: Verso, 2020)
  • Susan Marks, A False Tree Of Liberty: Human Rights In Radical Thought (Oxford University Press, 2019)
  • Karl Marx, Capital, A Critique of Political Economy (First English edition of 1887, Marxist Internet Archive)
  • Gelien Matthews, Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012)
  • Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (New York: Viking-Penguin, 1985)
  • Neville Morley, The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism (London: Pluto Press, 2010)
  • Stephen Mullen and Simon Newman, Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow report and recommendations of the University of Glasgow History of Slavery Steering Committee (University of Glasgow, 2018)
  • Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies, (Hutchinson, 2011)
  • Dawn Pawley, Drug War Capitalism (Oakland: AK Press, 2015)
  • Jessica Perera, The London Clearances: Race, Housing and Policing (London: Institute of Race Relations, 2019)
  • Christer Petley and J. McAleer (eds), The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820 (London, Palgrave Macmillan 2016).
  • William Pettigrew, Freedom’s Debt: the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
  • Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship : A Human History (New York: Viking; 2007)
  • Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra : Sailors Slaves Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013)
  • Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, 1972)
  • Angela Saini, Superior, the Return of Race Science (London: 4th Estate, 2020)
  • Leon Sealey-Huggins “1.5°C to stay alive: climate change, imperialism and justice for the Caribbean”, Third World Quarterly, 38:11 (2017)
  • A. Sivanandan, From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain (London: Race and Class, 1981)
  • Mark Steeds and Roger Ball, From Wulfstan to Colston: Severing the Sinews of Slavery in Bristol (Bristol: Bristol Radical History Group, 2020)
  • Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade : The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 (New York NY: Simon & Schuster 1997)
  • EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London Pelican, 1975)
  • EP Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (London: Penguin Books, 1990)
  • Michael Taylor, The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (London : The Bodley Head, 2020)
  • Mary Turner, From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1995)
  • Alex Vitale, The End of Policing (London: Verso, 2017)
  • Harsha Walia, Undoing Border Imperialism (Oakland: AK Press, 2013)
  • James Walvin, Sugar : The World Corrupted from Slavery to Obesity (London, Robinson 2017)
  • Eric Williams. Capitalism & Slavery (London: Penguin Classics 2022)