• Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, excerpt from A Narrative of the Life of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
• Ignatius Sancho, excerpts from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
• Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), excerpts from The Life of Olaudah Equiano
  
  

Olaudah Equiano (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK)

• Olaudah Equiano biography (PBS's "Africans In America" website)
• Angela Costanzo's teaching notes on Equiano's autobiography (Heath Anthology of American Literature website)
• A superb Ignatius Sancho website by Brycchan Carey at the British Library (Carey's Equiano site is also very good)
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "Literature" | "Music" | "Work and Community" (Use the sidebar to navigate among the subsections within this gallery)
• Sukhdev Sandhu, "The First Black Britons" (BBC)
• Gretchen Gerzina, "Mobility in Chains: Freedom of Movement in the Early Black Atlantic," South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1 (Winter 2001) (HSU users only)

Thomas Gainsborough, Ignatius Sancho, 1768 (National Gallery of Canada)

• S. I. Martin, excerpt from Incomparable World:  PDF version--requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is already installed on campus machines; simply click on the link. (HTML version also available)

• African-American loyalists who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War in hopes of winning their freedom, many of whom later migrated to Britain (PBS's "Africans in America" website)
• Historical documents related to this history (scroll down to "Part IV: The Revolutionary War")
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "The Black Poor" | "Black Loyalists"
• S. I. Martin (British Council: Contemporary Writers)

• Mary Prince, from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
• Michelle Cliff, from "Caliban's Daughter"
• Edward Said, from Culture and Imperialism

• Caryl Phillips, from Cambridge: A Novel
• The "Slave Trade" section of Channel 4's Untold: Black History Season website
• John Oldfield, "British anti-slavery" (BBC History)
• "The Slave Trade" (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• Stephen Behrendt, "Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Africana.com)
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "The Slave Trade" (Use the sidebar to navigate among the subsections within this gallery)
• Selected Resources from the Victorian Web:
  • Race and Class Overview (Anthony S. Wohl, Vassar College)
  • The British Empire: An Overview (links to various articles; see esp. British Empire: An Introduction, and The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain)