Yale University Library Research Guides: Early Modern Christian History: Slavery in Americas

History

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power (Online) by James Walvin Explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries.
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (Online) by Robert L. Paquette (Editor); Mark M. Smith (Editor) The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World.
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis Though centered on the UnitedStates, the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations (discussing the classical and biblical justifications for chattel bondage) and also traces the long evolution of anti-black racism (as in the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, among many others).
The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (Online) by Toyin Falola (Editor); Matt D. Childs (Editor) This anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba.

Rebels in Arms: Black Resistance and the Fight for Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic (Online) by Justin Iverson In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment near Charleston, Rebels in Arms tells the story of how enslaved soldiers and Maroons learned how to use military service and armed conflict to fight for their own interests.
The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond by Dale W. Tomich and Paul E. Lovejoy (editors) Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.
United States Reconstruction Across the Americas (Online) by William A. Link (Editor) The book explores how emancipation, nationhood and nationalism, and the spread of market capitalism--all central to U.S. Reconstruction--were interwoven with patterns of post-Civil War global political, social, and economic developments.
Slavery in the Development of the Americas by David Eltis; Frank D. Lewis; Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors) The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas.