1The New York Review of Books, "The British and the Slave Trade", 12 de janeiro de 2012. Disponível em <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jan/12/british-slave-trade>

2 C. L. R. James, Os jacobinos negros: Toussaint L'Ouverture e a revolução de Saint-Domingue [1ª ed. em inglês, 1938]. São Paulo: Boitempo Editorial, 2000;

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880, Nova York: Russell & Russell, 1956 [orig. 1935]

3 Seymour Drescher, Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (1977), Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Seu estudo tinha sido precedido, na crítica a Williams, por Roger Anstey, The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810, Londres: Macmillan, 1975.

A edição mais recente do livro de Williams é Capitalismo e escravidão, São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012.

4 Seymour Drescher, "The Decline Thesis of British Slavery since Econocide", in Drescher, From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (Nova York: New York University Press, 1999), p. 110.

5 Seymour Drescher, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, esp. pp. 115-266.

6 Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern Economy,Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000;

Joseph E. Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002;

Ronald Findlay & Kevin H O'Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millenium, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

7 Seymour Drescher, "The Limits of Example", in David Geggus (org.), The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,2001), pp. 10-4 (citação na p. 11);

João Pedro Marques, "Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: An Overinterpretation", in Seymour Drescher & Peter C. Emmer (orgs.), Who Abolished Slavery? Slave Revolts and Abolitionism. A debate with João Pedro Marques (Nova York: Berghahn Books, 2010), pp. 3-92.