Below is a list of printed primary sources related to Great Britain’s early Atlantic empire. It consists of printed collections of business records, diaries, government documents, letters, English literature, military records, pamphlets, poetry, travel narratives, and various other published sources. This list is quite voluminous but by no means exhaustive. Publications are listed in alphabetical order by title. For help locating any of these items, please consult our Finding Published Sources page. Chris Powell of the University of Michigan was gracious enough to compile a HathiTrust Collection of many of the volumes listed.If you are interested in only Great Britain’s North American colonies, then check our British North America Published Sources page.

A Brief Account of the Island of Antigua…, John Luffman (London, 1789)

A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land Virginia, Thomas Hariot (London, 1588)

A Brief, but most True Relation of the late Barbarous and Bloody Plot of the Negro’s in the Island of Barbados on Friday the 21 of October, 1692 (London, 1693)

Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642 – 1660, ed. C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait, 3 vols. (London, 1911)

Acts and Statutes of the Island of Barbados Made and Enacted since the Reducement of the Same, unto the Authority of the Common-wealth of England, 7th September 1652 (London, 1654)

Acts of Antigua (London, 1764)

Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Charibbee Leeward Islands, from 1690, to 1730 (London, 1734)

Acts of Assembly Passed in the Island of Barbados From 1648 to 1718 (London, 1732-1739)

Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Island of Nevis, from 1664, to 1739, inclusive (London, 1740)

Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Island of St. Christopher; from 1711, to 1739, inclusive (London, 1739)

Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Island of St. Christopher; from the Year 1711, to 1769 (St. Christopher, 1769)

Acts of the Privy Council of England: Colonial Series (1613 – 1783), W. L. Grant and James Munro, eds., 6 vols. (Hereford, 1908-1912)

Acts Passed in the Island of Barbados, 1643 – 1762, ed. Richard Hall (London, 1764)

A Defence of the Wesleyan Methodist Missions in the West Indies, Richard Watson (London, 1817)

A Description of the Island of Jamaica With the Other Isles and Territories in America to which the English are Related, Richard Blome (London, 1672)

A Description of the Island of Nevis; With an Account of its Principal Diseases, James Rymer (London, 1775)

A Description of the New World, or American Islands and Continent…, George Gardyner (London, 1651)

A Detection of the State and Situation of the Present Sugar Planters of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, Robert Robertson (London, 1732)

The Administration of the Colonies, Thomas Pownall (London, 1764)

A Journal of Dr. Coke’s visit to Jamaica, and of his third tour on the continent of America (London, 1789)

A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, from an inhabitant of His Majesty’s Leeward-Caribbee-Islands (London, 1730)

America: being an Accurate Description of the New World, John Ogilby (London, 1670)

American Archives…A Documentary History of…the American Colonies, ed. Peter Force, 4th ser., 6 vols., 5th ser., 3 vols. (Washington, 1837-1853)

America: or an Exact Description of the West-Indies (London, 1655)

An account of a voyage to Jamaica, with a description of some of the Caribbee islands, and various matters relative to the island of Jamaica and its inhabitants, etc. etc. (Dublin, 1776)

An Account of the English Settlements in America, William Burke, 2 vols. (London, 1759)

An Account of the Late dreadful Hurricane, which happened on the 31st August, 1772, also the Damage done on that Day in the Islands of St. Christopher and Nevis (Basseterre, 1772)

An account of the number of Negroes delivered in to the islands of Barbados, Jamaica, and Antego, from the year 1698 to 1708 (London, 1709)

An Answer to the Reverend James Ramsay’s Essay, on the Treatment and Conversion of Slaves, in the British Sugar Colonies (Basseterre, 1784)

A Narrative of the Official Conduct of Valentine Morris, Esq., Late Captain General, Governor in Chief, & etc. & etc. Of the Island of St. Vincent and its Dependencies, Valentine Morris (London, 1787)

A Narrative of the Revolt and Insurrection of the French Inhabitants in the Island of Grenada, Gordon Turnbull (London, 1795)

The Andros Papers, 1674 - 1677, eds. Peter Al Christoph and Florence Christoph, trans. Charles A. Ghering, 2 vols. (Syracuse, 1990)

An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British sugar colonies, James Ramsay (London, 1784)

An Essay upon the Plantership, Samuel Martin (London, 1765)

“An Extract from Henry Whistler’s Journal of West Indian Expedition under the Date 1654,” ed. N. C. Connell, Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (1938)

Anglo-French Boundary Disputes in the West, 1749 - 1763, ed. T. C. Pease (Springfield, 1936)

An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of the West-India Collonies, Dalby Thomas (London, 1690)

A Relation of the Coasts of Africk Called Guinee: With a Description of the Countreys, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants…in the Years 1666 and 1667, Nicholas Villault (London, 1670)

A Relation of the late Intended Settlement of the Islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent, in America, Nathaniel Uring (London, 1725)

A Review of Events Which have Happened in Grenada…, Thomas Turner Wood (Grenada, 1795)

A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, ed. George H. Rose, 3 vols. (London, 1831)

A Short Account of the Hurricane, that pass’d thro’ the English Leeward Carribbee Islands, on Saturday the 30th of June 1733 (London, 1733)

A Short Treatise on the Slavery of Negroes in the British Colonies (St. John’s, 1775)

A Tour through the British West Indies, Daniel McKinnen (London, 1804)

A Tour through the Several Islands of Barbados, St. Vincent, Antigua, Tobago,a nd Grenada in the Years 1791 and 1792, William Young (London, 1801)

A Trip to Jamaica: With a True Character of the People and the Island, Edward Ward (London, 1700)

A True and Perfect Relation of that most Sad and Terrible Earthquake, at Port Royal in Jamaica, which happened on Tuesday the 7th of June (London, 1692)

A True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia, John Smith (London, 1608)

A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West Indies, J. Atkins (1735)

A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: In Two Volumes, Hans Sloane (London, 1707)

A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century, From the Papers (A.D. 1676 – 1686) of Christopher Jeaffreson, ed. John Cordy Jeaffreson, 2 vols. (London, 1878)

Barbados Records: Baptisms, 1637 – 1800, ed. Joanne McRee Sanders (Baltimore, 1984)

Barbados Records: Marriages, 1643 – 1800, ed. Joanne McRee Sanders, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 1982)

Barbados Records: Wills, 1639 – 1725, ed. Joanne McRee Sanders, 3 vols. (Baltimore, 1981)

Barbo on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678 – 1712, ed. P. E. H. Hair, Adam Jones, and Robin Law (London, 1992)

The Barrington-Bernard Correspondence and Illustrative Matter, 1760 – 1770, drawn from the Papers of Sir Fracis Bernard, eds. Edward Channing and Archibald C. Coolidge (Cambridge, 1912)

The Barrington Papers, ed. D. Bonner-Smith, Naval Records Historical Society, nos. 77 and 81, 2 vols. (London, 1937-1941)

The Belcher Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 6th series, vols. 6-7 (Boston, 1893-1894)

The Bloody Bridge, and Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641, ed. Thomas Fitzpatrick (Dublin, 1903)

The Bowdoin and Temple Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 6th series, vol. 9, 7th series, vol. 6 (Boston, 1897, 1907)

British Diplomatic Instructions, 1689 – 1789, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, 4 vols. (London, 1927)

The British Empire in America, John Oldmixon, 2 vols. (London, 1708)

The British Empire in America, consider’d, John Ashley (London, 1732)

Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series. America and West Indies (1574 – 1733), 42 vols. (London, 1860-1953)

Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1574 – 1585 (London, 1867)

Calendar of Treasury Books (1660 – 1718), 32 vols. (London, 1904-1957)

Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers (1729 – 1745), 5 vols. (London, 1897-1903)

Calendar of Treasury Papers (1557 – 1728), 6 vols. (London, 1868-1889)

Candid and Impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade, John Campbell (London, 1763)

The Capacity of Negroes for Religious and Moral Improvements Considered, with Cursory Hints to Proprietors and to Government for the Immediate Melioration of the Condition of the Slaves in the Sugar Colonies to which are subjoined Short and Practical Discourses to Negroes on the plain and obvious Principles of Religion and Morality, Richard Nisbet (London, 1789)

The Case of our fellow creatures, the oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the Legislature of Great Britain, by the people called Quakers (London, 1783)

Carlisle Manuscripts, Historical Manuscripts Commission, no. 42 (London, 1897)

Carribeana, ed. Vere Langford Oliver, 6 vols. (London, 1912-1919)

Charlemont Manuscripts, Historical Manuscripts Commission, no. 28, 2 vols. (London, 1891-1894)

The Classical Period of the First British Empire, 1689 - 1783: The Foundations of a Colonial System of Government, eds. Frederick Madden and David Fieldhouse (Westport, 1985)

Collection of Interesting and Important Reports and Papers on the Navigation and Trade of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Colonies in the West Indies and America (London, 1807)

The Colonial Records of North Carolina, ed. William L. Saunders, 10 vols. (Raleigh, 1886-1900)

Considerations on the Negro Cause, commonly so called, Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield…By a West Indian, Samuel Estwick, 2nd ed. (London, 1773)

Correspondence, Despatches, and other Papers of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry, ed. Charles W. Vane, 12 vols. (London, 1848-1853)

The Correspondence of General Thomas Gage with the Secretaries of State, 1763 – 1775, ed. Clarence Edwin Carter, 2 vols. (New Haven, 1931)

Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford, ed. John Russell, 3 vols. (London, 1842-1846)

The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783, ed. J. W. Fortescue, 6 vols. (London, 1927-1928)

The Correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe, ed. Ernest A. Cruikshank, 5 vols. (Toronto, 1923-1931)

The Correspondence of the Colonial Governors of Rhode Island, 1723 – 1775, ed. Gertrude S. Kimball, 2 vols. (Providence, 1902)

Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 3 vols. (London, 1838-1839)

Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial Governors, and Military and Naval Commanders in America, ed. Gertrude S. Kimball, 2 vols. (New York, 1906)

The Creevey Papers, ed. Herbert Maxwell, 3rd ed. (London, 1905)

The Crisis of the Sugar Colonies, James Stephen (London, 1802

Dartmouth Manuscripts, Historical Manuscripts Commission, no. 20, 3 vols. (London, 1887-1896)

Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster, ed. Dorothy M. Stuart (London, 1955)

Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea, 1602, Pieter de Marees, ed. A. van Danzig and Adam Jones (Oxford, 1987)

Description géographique des Isles Antilles possédées par les Anglois, Jacques Bellin (Paris, 1758)

The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, ed. Leveson Vernon Harcourt, 2 vols. (London, 1859-1860)

The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1802 – 1817, ed. Charles Abbot (London, 1861)

The Diary of John Baker: Barrister of the Middle Temple and Solicitor General of the Leeward Islands (London, 1931)

The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington…1749 to…1761, ed. Henry P. Wyndham (Salisbury, 1784)

Diary of Viscount Percival, afterwards First Earl of Egmont, ed. R. A. Roberts, 3 vols. (London, 1920-1933)

Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America, ed. Elizabeth Donnan, 4 vols. (Washington, 1930-1935)

Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, eds. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, et. al., 3 vols. (Ottawa: S. E. Dawson, 1907-1935)

Documents Relating to the Invasion of Canada and the Surrender of Detroit, 1812, ed. Ernest A. Cruikshank (Ottawa, 1912)

“Documents Relating to the Irish in the West Indies,” ed. Aubrey C. Gwynn, Analecta Hibernica 4 (1932): 139-286

Documents Relating to the Northwest Company, ed. William S. Wallace (Toronto, 1934)

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, ed. Edmund B. O’Callahan, et al., 15 vols. (Albany, 1853-1887)

Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1670 - 1775, ed. Alden T. Vaughan, 20 vols. (Bethesda, 1979-1994)

The Economic Writings of William Petty, ed. Charles Henry Hull (Cambridge, 1899)

Edward Randolph: Including his Letters and Official Papers…1676 – 1703, eds. Robert N. Toppan and Alfred T. Goldrick, 7 vols. (Boston, 1898-1909)

Emancipation; or, Practical Advice to British Slaveholders, T. S. Winn (London, 1824)

England Enslaved by Her Own Slave Colonies, James Stephen (London, 1828)

Englands Slavery, or Barbados Merchandize Represented in a Petition to the High Court of Parliament, Marcellus Rivers and Oxenbridge Foyle (London, 1659)

Extra-Official State Papers Addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Rawdon, ed. William Knox, 2 vols. (London, 1789)

Fragments of Voyages and Travels, Basil Hall (London, 1842)

Friendly Advice to the Gentlemen-Planters of the East and West Indies In Three Parts, Thomas Tryon (London, 1684)

The Fuller Letters: Guns, Slaves and Finance, 1728 – 1775, eds. David Crossley and Richard Saville (Southampton, 1991)

Further Memoirs of the Whig Party, 1807 – 1812, with some Miscellaneous Reminiscences, by Henry Richard Vassall, third Lord Holland, ed. Lord Stavordale (London, 1905)

The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon. George Grenville, their Friends and Contemporaries, William James Smith, ed., 4 vols. (London, 1852)

History of Antigua, ed. Vere Langford Oliver, 3 vols. (London, 1890-1899)

The History of the Caribby-Islands, VIZ Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Montserrat, Mevis, Antego, &c. in Two Books, Charles de. Rochefort (London, 1666)

The History of the General Council and General Assembly of the Leeward Islands which were convened for the purpose of investigating and ameliorating the Condition of the Slaves throughout those Settlements and of Effecting a Gradual Abolition of the Slave Trade, Clement Caines (Basseterre, 1804)

Instructions to the British Ministers to the United States, 1791 – 1812, ed. Bernard Mayo (Washington, 1941)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano (London, 1789)

The Jamaica Lady; or, The Life of Bavia, William Pittis (London, 1720)

The Jenkinson Papers, 1760 – 1765, ed. Ninetta S. Jucker (London, 1949)

The Journal (Abridged) of William Edmundson, Quaker Apostle to Ireland and the Americas, 1627 – 1712, William Edmundson, ed. Caroline N. Jacob (Philadelphia, 1968)

The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord Auckland, ed. Robert J. Eden, 4 vols. (London, 1861-1862)

Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina and Portugal, in the Years 1774 – 1776 (New Haven, 1921)

“The Journal of an Absentee Proprietor, Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech,” ed. Clare Taylor, Journal of Caribbean History 18 (1984): 67-82

The Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland, ed. Earl of Ilchester, 2 vols. (London, 1909)

The Journal of George Fox, ed. John L. Nickalls (Cambridge, 1952)

The Journal of Jeffery Amherst: Recording the Military Career of General Amherst in America from 1758 to 1763, ed. J. Calrence Webster (Chicago, 1931)

Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations from…1704 to…1782, preserved in the Public Record Office, 14 vols. (London, 1920-1938)

Journal of the West Indies Expedition, Henry Whistler, ed. C. H. Firth (London, 1900)

The Laws of Antigua, containing Acts of the Leeward Islands 1690 – 1798 and Acts of Antigua 1668 – 1845, 4 vols. (London, 1805-1846)

Laws of Grenada, from 1763 to 1805, ed. George Smith (London, 1808)

Laws of the Island of St. Christopher, from the Year 1711, to the Year 1791 (Basseterre, 1791)

Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, Merchants of New York and Belfast, 1756 – 57, ed. Thomas M. Truxes (London, 2001)

Letter Book of John Watts, Merchant and Councillor of New York, January 1, 1762 – December 22 1765, ed. Dorothy C. Barck, New-York Historical Society Collections, vol. 51 (New York, 1928)

Letter-Books of George, Lord Rodney…1780 – 82, ed. Dorothy Barck (New York, 1932-1933)

Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red Squadron, 1758 – 1813, ed. John Knox Laughton, Naval Historical Records Society, nos. 32, 38, and 39, 3 vols. (London, 1907-1911)

“Letters from a Sugar Planation in Antigua, 1739-1758,” ed. R. B. Sheridan, Agricultural History 31 (1957): 3-24

“Letters from a Sugar Plantation in Nevis, 1723-1732,” ed. Edwin F. Gay, Journal of Economic and Business History 1 (1928): 149-173.

Letters of Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl of St. Vincent whilst First Lord of the Admiralty, 1801 -1804, ed. David B. Smith, 2 vols. (London, 1922-1927)

“Letters of a Free Negro,” in The Repository, vol. 1, nos. II, III, and vol. 2, no. IX (London, 1788)

“Letters of Alexander Spotswood,” Virginia Historical Society Collections, vols. I-II (Richmond, 1882)

The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Paget Toynbee, 16 vols. (Oxford, 1903-1905)

The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, ed. Bonamy Dobrée, 6vols. (London, 1932)

Letters Written by Sir Samuel Hood…1781 – 83, ed. David Hannay, Naval Historical Records Society, no. 3 (London, 1895)

The Life and Administration of Robert Banks, second Earl of Liverpool, late First Lord of the Treasury, ed. Charles D. Yonge, 3 vols. (London, 1868)

The Life and Correspondence of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B., ed. Ferdinand B. Tupper, 2nd ed. (London, 1847)

The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, ed. Philp C. Yorke, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1913)

The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney, ed. Godfrey Basil Mundy, 2 vols. (London, 1830)

The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth, ed. George Pellew, 3 vols. (London, 1847)

Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliott, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 – 1806, ed. Countess of Minto, 3 vols. (London, 1874)

The Life of William Wilberforce, eds. Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Samuel Wilberforce, 5 vols. (London, 1838)

Louisbourg Journals, 1745, ed. L. E. de Forest (New York, 1932)

Lord Granville Leveson Gower (first Earl Granville): Private Correspondence, 1781 – 1821, ed. Countess Granville Castalia, 2 vols. (London, 1916)

Manners and Customs of the West India Islands, J. B. Moreton (London, 1790)

Manuscript Records of the French and Indian War in the Library of the Society, ed. Charles Henry Lincoln (Worchester: American Antiquarian Society, 1909)

The Manuscripts of the Earl of Lonsdale, ed. J. J. Cartwirght (London, 1893)

The Manuscripts of the House of Lords (1678 – 1693), 4 vols. (London, 1887-1894)

The Manuscripts of the House of Lords, New Series (1694 – 1714), 10 vols. (London, 1900-1953)

Memoirs from 1754 to 1758, James Waldegrave (London, 1821)

Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington, 1712 – 1750, Written by Herself, Laetitia Pilkington (London, 1928)

Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Richard Cumberland, 2 vols. (London, 1807)

Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George III, ed. Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 4 vols. (London, 1853-1855)

Memoirs of the Court of England, during the Regency, 1811-1820, ed. Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 2 vols. (London, 1856)

Memoirs of the Life and Times of Henry Brougham, Henry Brougham, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1871-1872)

Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward, ed. Edmund Phipps, 2 vols. (London, 1850)

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Horace Walpole, ed. Lord Holland, 2 vols. (London, 1846)

Memoirs of the Whig Party during my Time, by Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third Baron Holland, ed. Henry Edward, 2 vols. (London, 1852-1854)

Military Affairs in North America, 1748 – 1765: Selected Papers from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle, ed. Stanley M. Pargellis 9New York, 1936)

The Montresor Journals, ed. G. D. Scull, New-York Historical Society Collections, vol. 14 (New York, 1882)

Montserrat Code of Laws from 1668, to 1788 (London, 1790)

The Narrative of General Venables, ed. C. F. Firth (London, 1900)

Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633 – 1684, ed. Clayton Colman Hall (New York, 1910)

Naval Documents of the American Revolution, eds. William Bell Clark and William James Morgan, et al., 14 vols. (Washington, 1964- )

Nelson’s Letters from the Leeward Islands, ed. Geoffrey Rawson (London, 1953)

Nevis and St Christopher, 1782 – 1784: Unpublished Documents, ed. Arthur P. Watts (Paris, 1925)

Notes on the West Indies: written during the Expeditions under the Command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby, George Pinckard, 3 vols. (London, 1806)

Occasional Poems (St. Jon’s, 1749)

Orrery Papers, ed. E. C. Boyle, 2 vols. (London, 1903)

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, eds. Leonard W. Labaree, et. al., 43 vols. (New Haven, 1959- )

The Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, 10 vols. (Charlottesville, 1983-1995)

The Papers of Henry Bouquet, eds. Sylvester K. Stevens and Donald H. Kent, 19 vols. (Harrisburg, 1940-1943)

The Papers of William Penn, eds. Mary Maples Dunn, et al., 5 vols. (Philadelphia, 1981-1986)

The Papers of Sir William Johnson, eds. Alexander C. Flick, et. al. 14 vols. (Albany, 1921-1965)

The Parliamentary Diary of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 1722 – 1730, ed. A. N. Newman (London, 1963)

Parliamentary History of England…1066 to…1803, ed. William Cobbet, 36 vols. (London, 1806-1820)

Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, ed. Robert Bowyer (Manchester, 1971)

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Phillis Wheatley (London, 1773)

Powder, Profits and Privateers: A Documentary History of the Virgini Islands During the Era of the American Revolution, ed. George Tyson, Jr. (St. Thomas, 1977)

The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America (London, 1686)

The Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, 1771 – 1778, eds. G. R. Barnes and J. H. Owen, Naval Historical Records Society, nos. 69, 71, 75, and 78, 4 vols. (London, 1932-1938)

Private Papers of William Wilberforce, ed. A. M. Wilberforce (London, 1897)

Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, ed. Leo Francis Stock, 5 vols. (Washington, 1924-1941)

Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, in New England, ed. John R. Bartlett, 10 vols. (Providence, 1856-1865)

Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, 5 vols. (Boston, 1853-1854)

Records of the Vice Admiralty Court of Rhode Island, 1716 – 1752, ed. Dorothy S. Towle (Washington, 1936)

The Records of the Virginia Company of London, ed. Susan Myra Kingsbury, 4 vols. (Washington, 1906-1935)

Redcoats in the Caribbean: Recollections by James Aytoun, ed. A. S. Lewis (Blackburn, 1984)

Reports of Cases in the Vice Admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty of the State of New York, 1715 – 1788, ed. Charles H. Hough (New Haven, 1925)

Report of the Lords of the Committee Council…Concerning the Present State of the Trade to Africa, and Particularly the Trade in Slaves… (London, 1788)

Report on the Laing Manuscripts Preserved in the University of Edinburgh, ed. Henry Paton (London, 1925)

Report on the Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Horne of Weddeburn Castle, N.B. (London, 1902)

Report on the Manuscripts of Earl Bathurst preserved at Cirencester Park, ed. Francis Bickley (London, 1923)

Report on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., preserved at Dropmore, ed. Walter Fitzpatrick, 10 vols. (London, 1892-1927)

Reports of the Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty, ed. Christopehr Robinson, 6 vols. (London, 1799-1808)

“Roger Hope Elletson Letter Book,” Jamaican Historical Review, various issues (1946-1953)

Royal Instructions to British Colonial Governors, 1670 – 1776, ed. Leonard Woods Labaree, 2 vols. (New York, 1965)

The Royal Navy and North America; The Warren Papers, 1736 - 1752, ed. J. Gwyn, Navy Records Society Publications, cxviii (London, 1973)

Rutland Manuscripts, Historical Manuscripts Commission, no. 24, 4 vols. (London, 1888-1905)

Sailor’s Letters: written to his Select Friends in England, during his Voyage and Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from the Year 1754 to 1759, Edward Thompson, 2 vols. (London, 1766)

Selection British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, ed. William H. Wood, 4 vols. (Toronto, 1920-1928)

Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham during the Years 1801 – 1804 and 1806 – 1807, ed. Clements Markham (London, 1904)

Selections from the Correspondence of Thomas Barclay, ed. Geroge L. Rives (New York, 1894)

The Siege and Capture of Havana, 1762, ed. David Syrett (London, 1970)

The Slave Colonies of Great Britain; or, A Picture of Slavery Drawn by the Colonists Themselves (London, 1825)

The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated, James Stephen, 2 vols. (London, 1824-1830)

Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants. With An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade…, Anthony Benezet (Philadelphia, 1771)

Some Instances of the Oppression and Male-Administration of Col. Parke, late Governor of the Leeward Islands (London, 1713)

Some Materials Toward the Memoirs of the Reign of King George II by John, Lord Hervey, ed. Romney Sedwick, 3 vols. (London, 1931)

Statement of the Plan, Object, and Effects of the Wesleyan Missions in the West Indies (London, 1824)

The State of the Island of Jamaica, Chiefly in Relation to its Commerce, and the Conduct of the Spaniards in the West Indies, James Knight (London, 1726)

The Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George III, Inclusive, ed. Owen Ruffhead, rev. Charles Runnington, 10 vols. (London, 1786)

Stopford Sackville Manuscripts, Historical Manuscripts Commission, no. 49, 2 vols. (London, 1904-1910)

The Sugar-Cane: A Poem, James Grainger (London, 1766)

Tea and Sugar, or the Nabob and the Creole, Timothy Touchstone (London, 1792)

Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805 – 1815: Being the Ridout Letters, ed. Lady Edgar (Toronto, 1890)

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, Quobono Ottobah Cugoano (London, 1787)

Thoughts on Slavery, John Wesley (London, 1774)

Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America, from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1778, ed. Peter Force, 4 vols. (Washington, 1836-1846)

Travels in the American Colonies, 1640 – 1783, ed. Newton D. Mereness (New York, 1961)

The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith in Europe Asia, Africke, and America, John Smith (London, 1630)

Two Letters to Mr. Wood, on the Coin and Currency of the Leeward Islands, &c., Wavell Smith (London, 1740)

Unanswerable arguments against the abolition of the slave trade, James McKittrick Adair (London, 1790)

Various Collections, Historical Manuscripts Commission, no. 55, 8 vols. (London, 1901-1914)

Voyages to the Madeira and Leeward Caribbean Isles with Sketches of the Natural History of these Islands, Maria Riddell (Edinburgh, 1792

Voyage to Maryland, Andrew White, ed. and trans. Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden with Josef IJsewign (Wauconda, 1995)

 Wentworth Papers, 1705 – 1739, ed. James Joel Cartwright (London, 1883)

The West India Common-Place Book; compiled from parliamentary and official documents, showing the interest of Great Britain in the sugar colonies, ed. William Young (London, 1807)

The West Indian, Richard Cumberland (London, 1771)

The Windham Papers, ed. Earl of Roseberry, 2 vols. (London, 1913)