These books provide very good and readable overviews of the themes and events we are going to explore on the module:
Heuman, G. The Caribbean: A Brief History (2014), especially chapters 2 to 11.
Hochschild, A. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (2006).
Walvin, J. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery (1993).
Take a look at the relevant chapters of these general histories of the Caribbean to improve your understanding of the broad contexts we’re going to be looking at:
Gibson, C. Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean (2014), chapters 5 to 8.
Higman, B.W. A Concise History of the Caribbean (2011), chapters 4 & 5.
These are important items, which we will be using once the module gets underway:
Blackburn, R. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery (London: Verso, 1988).
Brown, C. Moral Capital: The Roots of British Abolitionism (2006).
Burnard, T. Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004).
Craton, M. ‘Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean’. In Heuman and Walvin (eds) The Slavery Reader (2003).
Davis, D. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1823 (1976).
Petley, C. ‘New Perspectives on Slavery and Emancipation in the British Caribbean’, The Historical Journal 54/3 (2011).
Sheridan, R. ‘The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689-1748’, in P. Marshall (ed), Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century (1998).
Ward, J. R. ‘The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748-1815’, in P. Marshall (ed), Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century (1998).