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Books
African History: a Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone (Oxford, 2007)
The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices by Elazar Barkan (W W Norton & Co Ltd, 2000)
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild (Pan, 2006)
Sins of the Fathers: Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807 by James Pope-Hennessy (Weidenfeld & Nicholson history; New Ed edition, 2000)
Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (New Studies in Economic & Social History) by Kenneth Morgan (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
History of the Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas (Picador)
About the author
Nigel Pocock is a social scientist, freelance writer and researcher. He has a research degree in Theology and Social Psychology (University of Wales, Lampeter). His work has appeared in the Tamil Times, Journal of Theology & Psychology, Journal of Pastoral Psychology (the latter two with Prof Leslie Francis). His book (with Dr Dominic Beer), Mad, Bad or Sad? A Christian approach to antisocial behaviour and mental disorder, appeared in 2006. He has written some ten monographs on various aspects of slavery.
Victoria Cook is a freelance historian, researcher and writer. She worked for the Imperial War Museum for five years and has contributed to the BBC History website on a number of occasions.
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