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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...
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 ...
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 ...
UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Gregory O’Malley Overview of the slave trade out of Africa, 1500-1900 (maps courtesy of ). Gregory O’Malley’s recent book, , has received multiple awards ...
More than 47,000 records of slave trade voyages — from maps, itineraries and mortality rates to accounts of insurrections on ships and stories of enslaved people — are now entrusted to Rice University ...
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 ...
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