Sources & Bibliography

Primary and secondary sources referenced across this site.

Primary Sources

• Hansard — Parliamentary debates on abolition, 1807-1833
• The Times Digital Archive — Contemporary newspaper accounts, 1785-2019
• National Archives (Kew) — Colonial Office records, ships' logs, Famine Commission reports
• Dampier, William — A New Voyage Round the World (1697)

Secondary Sources

• Ferguson, Niall — Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003)
• Dalrymple, William — The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (2019)
• Hochschild, Adam — Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005)
• Bayly, Christopher — Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (1988)