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Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South. Oxford University Press, Landmark study of the American South, based mainly on slave autobiographies; illustrated.

Escott, Paul D. Slavery Remembered: a Record of Twentieth Century Slave Narratives. North Carolina University Press, 1979. Quantitative analysis refutes Genovese's view.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: the World the Slaves Made. Pantheon, Analytical history of American slavery and the master-slave relationship from a Marxist perspective.

Klein, Martin A., ed. Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Slavery and emancipation in Asian and African colonies.

Sawyer, Roger. Slavery in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Study of a continuing issue.

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution. New York: Random House, 1989. Classic study of the economic aspects of slavery in the American South. First published 1956.

Thomas, Gordon. Enslaved: an Investigation into Modern-Day Slavery. London: Bantam, 1990. Addressed to the general reader; with extensive bibliography.

Thompson, Vincent Bakpetu. The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas, 1441-1900. Harlow: Longman, 1987. Substantial scholarly study.

Watson, R. L. The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press; Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England, 1990. Study of 19th-century slavery in the Cape of Good Hope, with good bibliography.