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Websites providing information on the slave trade and slavery include:

Abolition 200 - leading the commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Bill.

Anti Slavery International - a campaigning group that continues to fight slavery around the world.

Bristol Slavery - website on Bristol and its links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade that forms part of Channel 4's Origination project.

British Abolitionists - website maintained by Brycchan Carey providing biographical information on leading abolitionists including Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce.

BBC: Local History: Liverpool - contains an extensive section on the city's slavery connections including slave trails.

BBC: Protest and Reform: Anti-slavery - see the sidebar that accompanies this article for links to other related pieces including one about the British slaves who were sold into slavery in North Africa.

The Cowper & Newton Museum - contains information about the former slave ship captain John Newton, author of the hymn 'Amazing Grace'. 2007 marks the bicentenary of his death.

Glasgow and Slavery - an online exhibition organised by the Scottish Archive Network.

Merseyside Maritime Museum - providing historical information on Liverpool and the slave trade.

Office of the High Commission for Human Rights - fact sheet on contemporary forms of slavery.

PortCitiesUK - includes sections on Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery, and The Impact on Liverpool of Abolition.

Set All Free - an anti-slavery initiative established by Churches Together in England.

The Slave Route - a site maintained by UNESCO.

Understanding Slavery - an online teaching resource for those planning lessons on the Transatlantic Slave Trade at KS3 and KS4.

Books and other resources on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery include the following contemporary accounts:

Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Originally published in 1789. Currently available in various editions including Penguin Classics and to read online at the Documenting the American South website.

Matthew Lewis Journal of a West India Proprietor. Originally published in 1834. Now available as an Oxford World's Classic.

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Narrative of the Enslavement of Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa. Originally published 1787. Currently available as Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings published by Penguin Classics. Extracts can be read online on the Documenting the American South website.

Mary Prince The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African. Originally published 1831. Currently available as a Penguin Classic and available to read online at the Documenting the American South website.

Ignatius Sancho Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. Published after his death in 1780, these letters are now available in a Penguin Classic and can be read online at the Documenting the American South website.

John Wesley Thoughts Upon Slavery. Originally published 1774 and available to read online at the United Methodist Women website.

Other books on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its abolition include:

James G. Basker (ed) (2002) Amazing Grace: an anthology of poems about slavery 1660-1810 Yale University Press.

David Brion Davis (2005) Inhuman Bondage: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World Oxford University Press Inc.

Madge Dresser (2001) Slavery Obscured: the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port Leicester University Press (currently out of print but will be reprinted by Redcliffe Press, Bristol in 2007).

Christine Eicklemann and David Small (2004) Pero: the life of a slave in eighteenth-century Bristol Redcliffe Press.

Nadia Foster (2004) Out of Slavery: a Caribbean history from a British perspective Redcliffe Publishing.

Adam Hochschild (2005) Bury the Chains: the British struggle to abolish slavery Macmillan.

Michael Jordan (2005) The Great Abolition Sham: the true story of the end of the British slave trade Sutton Publishing.

Caryl Phillips (2001) The Atlantic Sound Vintage.

Simon Shama (2005) Rough Crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution BBC Books.

William St Clair (2006) The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade Profile Books

Hugh Thomas (2006) The Slave Trade: history of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 Phoenix Press.

Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (2006) The British Slave Trade and Public Memory Columbia University Press.

James Walvin (1992) Black Ivory: a history of British slavery Harper Collins.

James Walvin (2005) Atlas of Slavery Longman.

Iain Whyte (2006) Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery Edinburgh University Press.

Steven M Wise (2006) Though the Heavens May Fall: the landmark trial that led to the end of slavery Pimlico.

Shaun Standfield of Plymouth Libraries has written an account of that city's involvement in the slave trade. It is available here as a Word document and it is hoped that this will eventually be published as a booklet.

Fictional accounts of the slave trade include:

Philippa Gregory (1995) A Respectable Trade HarperCollins.

Marguerite Steen (1976) The Sun is My Undoing HarperCollins.

Scouse Press in Liverpool has created a packet of material reproduced from original documents on Liverpool and the slaving and privateering trades.

Other non-fiction books on slavery include:

Stanley Engerman, Seymour Drescher, Robert Paquette (eds) (2001) Slavery Oxford Readers Series: Oxford University Press.

Giles Milton (2005) White Gold: the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves Sceptre. Thomas Pellow was a Cornish cabin boy captured at sea and sold into slavery. His own account of his 20 years of captivity was published in 1739.

Gordon Thomas (1990) Enslaved: an investigation into modern day slavery Bantam Press.

Plymouth Central Library has produced a list of books on slavery and its abolition, and the lives of the privateers Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake. Download it here.