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Slavery in the Caribbean

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Africa and the West : a documentary history from the slave trade to independence / William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, and Edward A. Alpers. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2001. ALEXANDER STACKS, CARR REF DT353.5.E9A34 2001

Africans abroad : a documentary history of the Black Diaspora in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean during the age of slavery / Graham W. Irwin. New York : Columbia University Press, 1977. ALEXANDER, DOUGLASS and CARR STACKS HT861.A4

Extending the frontiers : essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database / edited by David Eltis and David Richardson. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008. ALEXANDER STACKS HT1321.E98 2008

Caribbean slavery in the Atlantic world : a student reader / [editors], Verene A. Shepherd, Hilary McD. Beckles. Rev. and expanded ed. Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle ; Oxford : James Currey ; Princeton, NJ : M. Weiner, 2000. ALEXANDER STACKS HT1071.C343 2000

Colonial Latin America : a documentary history / edited by Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, and Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, c2002. CAMDEN STACKS F1412.C642 2002

Eyewitness accounts of slavery in the Danish West Indies : also graphic tales of other slave happenings on ships and plantations / Isidore Paiewonsky. New York : Fordham University Press, 1989, c1987. DANA NEWARK HT1119.V6P34 1989

Historia de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico : (información y documentos) / Cayetano Coll y Toste ; compilación de Isabel Cuchí Coll. 3. ed. San Juan, Puerto Rico : Litografía Metropolitana, 1977. ALEXANDER and CARR STACKS HT1086.C64

Libète : a Haiti anthology / Charles Arthur and Michael Dash (eds). Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers ; London : Latin America Bureau, 1999. ALEXANDER STACKS F1921.L53 1999

New Iberian world : a documentary history of the discovery and settlement of Latin America to the early 17th century / edited, with commentaries, by John H. Parry and Robert G. Keith ; with the assistance of Michael Jimenez. 4 vols.  New York : Times Books : Hector & Rose, 1984. ALEXANDER STACKS F1411.I18 1984

Reales asientos y licencias para la introducción de esclavos negros a la América Española, 1676-1789. Ed. fascimilar. Windsor [Ontario, Canada] ; México : Rolston-Bain, 1985. ALEXANDER STACKS HT1052.5.R4 1985

Slavery and abolition of the slave trade, 1700-1890 [microform] : (manuscript collection). [Wilmington, DE] : Scholarly Resources Inc., [1995] ALEXANDER M-FILM 2928

Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba : a documentary history / Gloria García Rodríguez ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate ; foreword by Ada Ferrer. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. ALEXANDER STACKS HT1076.G3713 2011

West Indian (Haiti) collection [microform] : 1716-1817 and 1857. Wilmington, Del. : Distributed on microfilm by Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996. ALEXANDER M-FILM 2881

Reproduces 120 manuscripts that are chiefly governmental and military documents concerning Toussaint Louverture, Henri Christophe, and Napoleon Bonaparte, dating from 1716 to 1817.

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