Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database now available in GALILEO

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the result of an international research project that offers a search of African names and slaving expedition records, is now available at http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=voyg or through the GALILEO website. An informational sheet can be found at: http://about.galileo.usg.edu/docs/materials_docs/Voyages.pdf

A description of the database is provided below.

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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is the result of the African Origins Project, a scholar-public collaborative endeavor to trace the geographic origins of Africans transported in the transatlantic slave trade. The database provides information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Voyages section of the database tracks slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866 and includes the ship’s name, captain, owners, and nation as well as the number of slaves and some other information about the voyage. The African Names Database identifies over 67,000 African men, women, and children, including name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation. A section on assessing the slave trade provides statistics, a timeline, and maps that track the flow of the slave trade over time.

Learn more about the project at http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/about/index.faces
Read more about this database in “Slave Names Launch Journey with New Database” in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: http://www.ajc.com/news/slave-names-launch-journey-870371.html

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