HIST 565 - Slavery, the slave trade and abolition in Britain and the British empire

Primary Sources

Books

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• HathiTrust - An immense collection of published primary source material digitized by major research libraries around the world

Newspapers and Periodicals

• Gale NewsVault (includes the Burney collection of 17th and 18th Century newspapers)
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• British Periodicals
• The Guardian (1821-) and The Observer
• Periodicals Index Online
• Scotsman (1817-)
• Sunday Times Digital Archive (1822-)
• The Times Digital Archive

Government Documents

• Debates of the House of Commons
• House of Commons Parliamentary Paper

Thematic Collections (slavery-specific primary source collections)

• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
• The Slave Trade: 1858-1892 (British Foreign Office) [microfilm]
• The Humphrey Morice papers from the Bank of England, London [microfilm]
• The papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845 [microfilm]
• Wilberforce: slavery, religion, and politics [microfilm]
• Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Secondary Sources

Books

• Library Catalogue

Articles

• Bibliography of British and Irish History
• Historical Abstracts
• JSTOR

Theses

• Proquest Dissertations and Theses
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses: UK & Ireland

Other Locations

• Center for Research Libraries - McGill is a member of this consortia. Any materials found in the catalogue can be sent to you at McGill. There are several primary source collections available on microfilm.
• Interlibrary Loan
• BCI Card