After 20 years Pan African studies professor Joseph Holloway finished compiling the database on slave populations and slave rebellions in the United States. Bohdi Severns / staff photographer The Pan ...
The portal currently features 613,458 entries documenting the people, events and places involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via public domain and NMAAHC ...
On a typical day, over 1,000 visitors consult the website Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities. Drawing on four decades of ...
On a typical day, more than 1,000 visitors consult the website Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities. Drawing on four decades ...
ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...
UC Santa Cruz has joined a newly formed consortium of institutions to ensure the preservation, stability, and future development of what has become the single most widely used online resource for ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — Marcus Garvey once said, “A ...
The Virginia Historical Society has launched a database of slave names drawn from its vast collection of information. The site, Unknown No Longer, has 1,500 names and uses searchable keywords such as ...
Advertisement for a fugitive slave in the Oppenheim (New York, 1824) (via Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, New York Public Library) The ...