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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database URL: http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Description: This site provides access to four databases (Voyages, Estimates, Images, and African Names) with "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." Data includes summary statistics, timelines, graphs, and maps. Site also includes introductory essays, lesson plans, and links to related material. An Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative, with support from international partners. LII Topics: Black Resources, Slavery, Slavery, Abolition, & Emancipation, United States History Publisher: voyages@emory.edu Extra Keywords W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, University of Hull Universidade Federai do Rio de Janeiro Victoria Universtiy of Wellington National Endowment for the Humanities black LII Database Information: Record 27172 created by Maria Brandt on 11/12/2008 Last modification on 12/10/2008 Published: 12/11/2008 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27172 |
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