Using academic articles
This is a large collection of JSTOR articles. All of them are useful and relevant (and some, marked with a 
, are particularly useful) - but there is no expectation that you read them all! Skim the titles first, and then click on those that look most relevant to your LoE. Each article will have a short summary (or abstract) which you can use to decide if it is worth reading. As your booklet says, "if an article doesn't seem terribly useful or relevant, don't slavishly work your way through it". Move on.
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Citing and referencing
There is more information about this in the Using sources in your work tab, but the journal references on this page are largely in a suitable format to use in your bibliography (making sure you remove the hyperlink from the article title and put in the date you accessed the article, removing the highlighting). To use them in your footnotes you will need to reorder the first author's name to be "Firstname Surname". Please check this advice with your teacher, who may have further instructions.
Anstey, Roger T. "Capitalism and Slavery: A Critique." The Economic History Review, New Series, 21, no. 2 (1968): 307-20. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2592438
Anstey, Roger. " A Re-Interpretation of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, 1806-1807". The English Historical Review Vol. 87, no. 343 (1972) pp.304-332. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/563288
Bennett, J. Harry. "The Problem of Slave Labor Supply at the Codrington Plantations." The Journal of Negro History 36, no. 4 (1951): 406-41. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2715372
Bennett, J. Harry. "The Problem of Slave Labor Supply at the Codrington Plantations." The Journal of Negro History 37, no. 2 (1952): 115-41. [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2715340.
Beckwith, G. C., and H. H. Kellogg. "Thomas Clarkson on peace." The Advocate of Peace (1837-1845) 5, no. 21 (1844): 241-45. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27888560.
Beckles, Hilary. "Capitalism and Slavery: The Debate over Eric Williams." Social and Economic Studies 33, no. 4 (1984): 171-89. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27862095.
Bosch, Gerald R. "Eric Williams and the Moral Rhetoric of Dependency Theory." Callaloo 20, no. 4 (1997): 817-27. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3299410.
Cooke, Raymond M. "The Historian as underdog: Eric Williams and the British Empire. " The Historian 33, no. 4 (1971): 596-610. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24443130.
Cotter, William R. "The Somerset Case and the Abolition of Slavery in England" History, Vol 79, No 255 (February 1994), pp. 31-56. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24421930
Darity, William. "Eric Williams and Slavery: A West Indian Viewpoint? " Callaloo 20, no. 4 (1997): 801-16. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3299409.
Mr Roberts' recommendation
Drescher, Seymour. "Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade" Past & Present No. 143 (1994) pp. 136-166. Accessed {Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/651164
Drescher, Seymour. "Eric Williams: British Capitalism and British Slavery." History and Theory 26, no. 2 (1987): 180-96. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505121.
Mr Roberts' recommendation
Fergus, Claudius. "'Dread of Insurrection': Abolitionism, Security, and Labor in Britain's West Indian Colonies, 1760-1823." The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 66, no. 4 (2009): 757-80. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40467540.
Fisher, Ruth Anna. "Lord Mansfield and the Somerset Case." Negro History Bulletin 7, no. 3 (1943): 65-66. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44212090.
Fisher, Ruth Anna. "Granville Sharp and Lord Mansfield." The Journal of Negro History 28, no. 4 (1943): 381-89. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2714946
Gaspar, David Barry. "They 'Could Never Have Too Much of My Work': Eric Williams and the Journal of Negro History, 1940-1945." The Journal of African American History 88, no. 3 (2003): 291-303. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3559073
Geggus, David. "The British Government and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793." The English Historical Review 96, no. 379 (1981): 285-305. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/568291.
Geggus, David. "The Enigma of Jamaica in the 1790s: New Light on the Causes of Slave Rebellions." The William and Mary Quarterly 44, no. 2 (1987): 274-99. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1939665.
Gosse, Dave. "The politics of Morality: The Debate Surrounding the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade." Caribbean Quarterly Vol. 56, no 1/2 (2010) pp.127-138. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40654956
Gross, Izhak. “The Abolition of Negro Slavery and British Parliamentary Politics 1832-3.” The Historical Journal 23, no. 1 (1980): 63–85. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. www.jstor.org/stable/2638708
Mr Roberts' recommendation
Hall, Catherine. "Troubling memories: nineteenth-century histories of the slave trade and slavery." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 21 (2011): 147-69. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41432400.
Klingberg, Frank J. "British Humanitarianism at Codrington." The Journal of Negro History 23, no. 4 (1938): 451-86. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2714582.
Knight, Frank. "Eric Williams' Inward Hunger: The Caribbean as a Microcosm of World History." Caribbean Quarterly 45, no. 1 (1999): 78-94. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40793463.
Mcdonald, Roderick A. "The Williams Thesis: A Comment on the State of Scholarship." Caribbean Quarterly 25, no. 3 (1979): 63-68. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40653387.
Neff, Stephen C. "James Stephen's "War in Disguise": The story of a book." Irish Jurist Vol.38 (2003). Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/44026535
Page, Anthony. "Rational Dissent, Enlightenment, and Abolition of the British Slave Trade". The Historical Journal, Vol 54 no.3 (2011), pp.741-772. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day,Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/23017270
Palmer, William. "How Ideology Works: Historians and the Case for British Abolitionism." The Historical Journal 52, no. 4 (2009): 1039-051. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25643869.
Phillips, John A. Wetherell, Charles " The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of England" The American Historical Review, Vol. 100, No.2 (Apr.,1995) 411- 436. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2169005
Phillips, John A. Wetherell, Charles "The Great Reform Bill of 1832 and the Rise of Partisanship" The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 63 No. 4 (Dec., 1991) 621-646. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2938583
Reeder, Tyson. " Liberty with the sword: Jamaican Maroons, Haitian Revolutionaries and American Liberty". Journal of the Early Republic Vol 37 No.1 (Spring 2017) pp.81-115. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/90000622
Reich, Jerome. "The Slave Trade at the Congress of Vienna -A Study in English Public Opinion-." The Journal of Negro History 53, no. 2 (1968): 129-43. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2715372
Rolingher, Louise. "A Metaphor for Freedom: Olaudah Equiano and Slavery in Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines 38, no. 1 (2004): 88-122. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4107269.
Ryden, David Beck. "Eric Williams' Three Faces of West India Decline." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 35, no. 2 (2012): 117-33. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43551697.
Sea, W. G. "Thomas Clarkson." Negro History Bulletin 6, no. 6 (1943): 126-43. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44245993.
Smandych, Russell. "'To Soften the Extreme Rigor of Their Bondage': James Stephen's Attempt to Reform the Criminal Slave Laws of the West Indies, 1813-1833." Law and History Review 23, no. 3 (2005): 537-88. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30042898.
Tewari, Archana. "The Reform Bill (1832) and The Abolition of Slavery (1833): A Caribbean Link". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 73 (2012) pp.1140-1147. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156315
Usherwood, Stephen. " The Abolitionists' debt to Lord Mansfield" History Today Vol. 31 Iss 3 (1981) 40. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ukh&AN=4865080&site=ehost-live
Van Cleve, George. "'Somerset's Case' and Its Antecedents in Imperial Perspective." Law and History Review 24, no. 3 (2006): 601-45. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year].. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27641404.
Mr Roberts' recommendation
Walvin, James "The Slave Trade, Abolition and Public Memory" Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 19 (2009) pp.139-149. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/25593895
Whelan, Timothy. "William Fox, Martha Gurney, and Radical Discourse of the 1790s." Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 3 (2009): 397-411. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40264219.
Woods, John A., Benjamin Rush, and Granville Sharp. "The Correspondence of Benjamin Rush and Granville Sharp 1773—1809." Journal of American Studies 1, no. 1 (1967): 1-38. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month Day, Year]. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27552761.
Wright, Philip. " War and Peace with the Maroons, 1730-1739." Caribbean Quarterly Vol. 16 No.1 (March 1970) pp. 5-27. Accessed [Date you accessed it Month, Day, Year] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40653130
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