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Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone (2000). Explores the varieties of slave experience in North America.
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789; reprint 2006). A compelling and influential eighteenth-century slave autobiography.
Paul Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713–1763 (2011). Offers a continental perspective on the contest for European control of North America.
Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed (2011). Tells the story of the Glorious Revolution in the American colonies.
Africans in America, Part 1: Terrible Transformation, 1450–1750 (PBS video, 1998) and the related Web site (pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/title.html). Treats the early African American experience.
“The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record” (hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery). An extensive collection of slave images.