Robin Blackburn

We Must Learn How The Modern World Was Made

The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870

By Hugh Thomas

Frank McLynn

Hearts of Darkness

Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa

By Steven Press

Tim Stanley

With Flying Colours

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

By Karl Jacoby

Elizabeth Imlay

No Fun for Slaves

Fanny Kemble: The American Journals

By Fanny Kemble & Elizabeth Mavor (ed)

Freya Johnston

The Son He Never Had

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

By Michael Bundock

Paul Johnson

Man On A Manumission

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, And The Creation of America

By Henry Wiencek

Europeans For Sale

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North America's One Million European Slaves

By Giles Milton

Josh Glancy

The Great Emancipator

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By Eric Foner

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kenan Malik

The Unity of Man

Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

By Adrian Desmond and James Moore

Matthew Parker

Back to Barbados

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

By Andrea Stuart

Saul David

Cry Freedom

Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery

By Adam Hochschild

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

By Caroline Moorehead

Joan Smith

Profits of Sin

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking

By Lydia Cacho (Translated by Elizabeth Boburg)

Josh Glancy

The Sin that Wouldn’t Die

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Douglas A Blackmon

Andrea Stuart

Trading Places

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

By Gaiutra Bahadur