Slave Trade


The Book of Negroes
Homegoing
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
The Underground Railroad
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
James
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
American Slavery, American Freedom
The Forgotten (John Puller, #2)
Mansfield Park
Let Us Descend
Washington Black
The Other Princess
Horse
I will tell you what abolishing the trade did. When a man cannot buy stock, he breeds it. Every woman at Paradise was a belly woman then! Lining up on Sundays, waiting at the front porch for their half-dollars and their maccarronis. "See Massa! Me breed good new neger for Massa. Big strong neger. ...more
Sara Collins

Herman Melville
As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry, they run away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is— "How many skulls?"— the same way that whalers hail— "How many barrels?" And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses. ...more
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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