Suggested by Minakshi Arora for International day for the remembrance of the slave trade some good reads that discuss the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition.
- Murphy, Sharon Ann. Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
- Jean, Martine. Policing Freedom: Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Bernstein, Robin. Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
- Cutter, Martha. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown: The Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom
- Kretz, Dale. Administrating Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau
- Rarey, Matthew. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
- Emberton, Carole. An Intimate History of Freedom: The Biography of Emancipated Slave Priscilla Joyner
- Kenny, Kevin. The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- LaCroix, Alison L. The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
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