• Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, excerpt from A Narrative of the Life of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
• Ignatius Sancho, excerpts from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
• Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), excerpts from The Life of Olaudah Equiano
  
  

Olaudah Equiano (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK)

Thomas Gainsborough, Ignatius Sancho, 1768 (National Gallery of Canada)

• Sukhdev Sandhu, "The First Black Britons" (BBC)
• Gretchen Gerzina, "Mobility in Chains: Freedom of Movement in the Early Black Atlantic," South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1 (Winter 2001) (HSU users only: HTML | PDF)
• Angela Costanzo's teaching notes on Equiano's autobiography (Heath Anthology of American Literature website)
• And a slew of other Equiano sites: Wikipedia | BBC History | PBS | The Mystery of Equiano's Portrait | Parliament & the British Slave Trade | The Interesting Narrative at Project Gutenberg
• A superb Ignatius Sancho website by Brycchan Carey of the British Library (Carey's Equiano site is also very good, as is the parent site on British slavery & abolition)
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "Literature" | "Music" | "Work and Community" (Use the sidebar to navigate among the subsections within this gallery)

• S. I. Martin, excerpt from Incomparable World (pdf)

• African-American loyalists who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War in hopes of winning their freedom, many of whom later migrated to Britain (PBS's "Africans in America" website)
• Historical documents related to this history (scroll down to "Part IV: The Revolutionary War")
  • "The Book of Negroes": a list of the Black Loyalists evacuated from North America
  • Black Loyalist: a repository of historical data about the African American loyalist refugees who left New York between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes"
• "Black Loyalists in 18th Century London" (Black Presence in Britain)
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "The Black Poor" | "Black Loyalists"
• St. Giles, once one of London's most notorious slums (BBC)
• S. I. Martin (British Council Literature)

• Mary Prince, from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
• Michelle Cliff, from "Caliban's Daughter" (alternate pdf version [via JSTOR - HSU users only]: only sections I-V are required)
• Edward Said, from Culture and Imperialism

• Parliament & the British Slave Trade
• John Oldfield, "British anti-slavery" (BBC History)
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "The Slave Trade" (Use the sidebar to navigate among the subsections within this gallery)
• "The Slave Trade" (Spartacus Educational)
• David Olusoga, "The History of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed" (London Observer 11 July 2015)
  • Legacies of British Slave Ownership (University College London)
• Selected Resources from the Victorian Web:
  • Race and Class Overview (Anthony S. Wohl, Vassar College)
  • The British Empire: An Overview (links to various articles; see esp. British Empire: An Introduction, and The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain)