The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

[dipsydoodle]

Please note that I put this in GD solely because I couldn't figure where else to post it.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database has 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. It offers researchers,
students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of
one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

This impressive new website on the slave trade is an enlarged and revised edition of the Cambridge 1998 CD-ROM dataset <that was clumsy to> use) and will be very useful for teaching and research... and its all free folks.

Features: Search the Voyages Database. Look for particular voyages in this database of documented slaving expeditions. Create listings, tables, charts, and maps using information from the database.Examine Estimates of the Slave Trade. Slaves on documented voyages represent four-fifths of the number who were actually transported. Use the interactive estimates page to analyze the full volume and multiple routes of the slave trade. Explore the African Names Database. This database identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using> name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation. Special features : Introductory Maps , Timeline and Chronology..."

BTW - I picked this information up from the Yahoo BlackBanjo group
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackBanjo/

[Blue_Tires]

1. k+r

thanks for this