Supplementary report
on slave-trade studies in the
United States
P. D. Curtin
Research on the slave trade in the United States is now very extensive and I
cannot know all of it. But the most recent bibliography is :
HOGG, Peter C. The African Slave Trade and its Suppression. A Classified and Annotated
Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Articles. London, 1973.Other more recent important contributions have been:
RUBIN, Vera; DUDEN, Arthur (eds.). Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World
Plantation Societies. New York, New York Academy of Sciences, 1977. (Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 292.)
DRESCHER, Seymour. Econocide. British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. Pittsburgh, Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
GEMERY, Henry; HOGENDORN, Jan. A volume containing papers originally presented at a
slave-trade conference in Waterville, Maine, in August 1977, published in 1978.
KLEIN, Herbert. S. The Middle Passage; Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade,
Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1978.
VILLA VILAR, Enriqueta. Hispano-America y el Comercio de Esclaves. Seville, 1977.
Other important ongoing research is being carried out by David Eltis, Depart-
ment of Economics, Rochester University, Rochester, N.Y. ; Stanley Engerman,
Department of Economics, Rochester University, Rochester, N.Y. ; and Joseph
Miller, Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.