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The Triangular Trade tells the story of Boyrereau Brinch, an African boy who was forced into slavery. The book also tells of the ships that carried enslaved Africans overseas, and of what sort of life awaited those captives in Central America and the United States.
Published in 2020 by Nystrom, as part of the Nystrom Young Citizens curriculum.
Aronson, Marc, and Marina Budhos. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science. Boston: Clarion, 2010.
Davis, Kenneth C. In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives. New York: Holt, 2016.
Rockwell, Anne. A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, 2016.
WatchKnowLearn.org: Slave Trade. Videos.
A slave ship. Painting by William Jackson.
American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists: Conscience of the Nation. Edited by Eric Saul.
Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1998.
Cecelski, David S. The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Dodge, M. A. "The Search for Resistance: A Layperson's Reflections on the Historiography of Slavery in the African Atlantic." The History Teacher 47, no. 1 (November 2013): 77-90.
Eltis, David, David Richardson, James G. Basker, David Blight, and David Brion Davis, eds. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Holcomb, Julie L. Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Magra, Christopher Paul. "The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution." PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996 (reprint of 1961 edition).
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking, 2007.
Rucker, Walter C. The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Slave Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
The Story of Africa. BBC World Service. Presented by Hugh Quarshie. Alternative site for The Story of Africa.
Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Walsh, Lorena S. "Slavery in the North American Mainland Colonies." In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804, edited by David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bailey, Anne. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.
Brace, Jeffrey, as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq. The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace. Edited with an introduction by Kari J. Winter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. The 1810 memoir is also available online.
The Story of Jeffrey Brace: A Brief Look at an Incredible Man from His Perspective. Saint Albans, VT: Northwest Access TV, 2018. Presented by Joanne Polanshek.
