Select Bibliography
Primary works:W. Armistead, A tribute to the negro: being a vindication of the moral, intellectual and religious capabilities of the coloured portion of mankind; with particular reference to the African race (Manchester: 1848)
The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter (London: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1840-45, 6 vols; New Series 1846-52, 7 vols; 3rd Series 1853-80, 22 vols; Series 4 1881-88, 8 vols)
Sir T.F. Buxton, The African slave trade and its remedy (London: 1840)
E. Cardwell, Viscount Cardwell, The slave circular: speeches of Lords Cardwell and Selborne in the House of Lords on Tuesday March 7 1876 (Westminster: 1876)
H.C. Carey, The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished (Philadelphia: 1872)
Hymns for anti-slavery prayer meetings (London: 1838)
W.G. Sewell, The ordeal of free labor in the British West Indies (London: 1861)
Special report of the Anti-Slavery conference held at the Salle Herz on the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh August 1867 (London: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1867)
H.J. Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Speech of Viscount Palmerston in the House of Commons on Tuesday July 16th 1844 on the slave trade (London: 1844)
M.B. Tuckey, The wrongs of Africa: a tribute to the anti-slavery cause (Glasgow: 1838)
Secondary works:
Johnson Uzoha Jonah Asiegbu, Slavery and the politics of liberation, 1787-1861: a study of liberated African emigration and British anti-slavery policy (London and Harlow: Longman, 1969)
J.W. Blassingame, The slave community; plantation life in the antebellum South (New York: 1972) C. Bolt, The anti-slavery movement and reconstruction: a study in Anglo-American co-operation, 1833-77 (London: Institute of Race Relations, 1969)
Dwight Lowell Dumond, Anti-slavery: the crusade for freedom in America (University of Michigan: 1961)
J. Gratus, The great white lie: slavery, emancipation and changing racial attitudes (London: 1973)
Edith Farber Hurwitz, Politics and the public conscience: slave emancipation and the abolitionist movement in Britain. [A selection of contemporary documents with introduction] (London: Allen and Unwin, 1973)
F.J. Klingberg, The anti-slavery movement in England: a study in English humanitarianism (New Haven: Yale Historical Publications Miscellany, 1926)
N.B. Lewis, The abolitionist movement in Sheffield, 1823-1833: with letters from Southey, Wordsworth and others... (Manchester: 1934: re-printed from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library xviii, number 2, Jul 1934)
W.L. Mathieson, British slave emancipation, 1838-1849 (London: 1932)
W.L. Mathieson, British slavery and its abolition, 1823-1838 (London: 1926)
W.L. Mathieson, Great Britain and the slave trade, 1839-1865 (London: 1929)
Suzanne Miers, Britain and the ending of the slave trade (London: Longman, 1975)
`Notes and news', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library xlix, number 2, Spring 1967, pp.271-272
J.H. Pease and W.H. Bound, Bound with them in chains: a biographical history of the anti-slavery movement (Westport, Connecticut: 1972)
Howard Temperley, British anti-slavery, 1833-1870 (London: Longman, 1972)
This bibliography is not comprehensive. For further works, see the Deansgate Library subject catalogue under "Serfdom and Slavery", which contains more localised studies of slavery within the British Empire, as well as material relating to the abolitionist movement outside the period 1834-1886 and in America and elsewhere around the world.