📚 Slave Trade

Books with slave trade on their catalogue record, first published between 1734 and 2002, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject slave trade in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 5,201 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Suppression Of The Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638-1870	W. E. B. Du Bois	1896	55
	Capitalismo y Esclavitud	Eric Eustace Williams	1944	39
	A dissuasion to Great-Britain and the colonies, from the slave-trade to Africa	James Swan	1772	29
	A short account of that part of Africa	Anthony Benezet	1762	25
	Observations upon Negro-slavery	Charles Crawford	1784	23
	Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery, or, The nature of servitude as admitted by the law of God compared to the modern slavery of the Africans in the West Indies	Ottobah Cugoano	1787	19
	Dhow chasing in Zanzibar waters /by G.L. Sulivan ; [edited by Gemma Pitcher]	G. L. Sulivan	1873	19
	Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa	Barth, Heinrich	1857	16
	The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment ofthe abolition of the African slave-trade by the British Parliament	Thomas Clarkson	1808	14
	The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern	William O. Blake	1857	14
	Slave trading in the Old South	Frederic Bancroft	1931	13
	The West Indies, and other poems	Montgomery, James	1810	12
	Slavery and the internal slave trade in the United States of North America	British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.	1841	12
	Black mother	Basil Davidson	1961	12
	A new account of some parts of Guinea and the slave-trade	William Snelgrave	1734	11
	Sinfulness of American slavery	Elliott, Charles	1850	11
	An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa	Alexander Falconbridge	1788	10
	Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slaver	Theodore Canot	1854	10
	The American slave-trade	Spears, John Randolph	1900	10
	The exploitation of East Africa, 1856-1890	Sir Reginald Coupland	1939	10
	Questioning Slavery	Walvin, James.	1996	10
	Atlas of slavery	Walvin, James.	2002	10
	Africa and the American flag	Andrew Hull Foote	1854	9
	Correspondence with British Commissioners and other representatives abroad and with foreign ministers in England	Unknown author	1969	9
	The slave trade	Hugh Thomas	1997	9
	A letter from ********, in London, to his friend in America, on the subject of the slave-trade	Thomas Day	1784	8
	Six months' service in the African blockade	Frederick E. Forbes	1849	8
	History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque	Gomer Williams	1897	8
	The African slave trade	Basil Davidson	1961	8
	Fighting the Slave Trade	Sylviane A. Diouf	2002	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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