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New database offers millions of records of people enslaved in British colonies
A new database holds close to 4 million records of people enslaved in British colonies from the Caribbean to South Africa ...
Blending the power of big data and history, an expanded and redesigned version of Slave Voyages – one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities – is now available. Housing both ...
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 ...
SlaveVoyages, a tool for data on history's largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project's upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher ...
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 ...
UC Santa Cruz associate history professor Gregory O’Malley has received a 2020 Digital Extension Grant of $150,000 from The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to expand coverage of the Intra ...
"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...
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 ...
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 ...
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