Resource for Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade Data base http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces - this free website, created by Emory University, is an enlarged and revised edition of the Cambridge 1998 CD-ROM dataset. It is much easier to use, and consists of four main databases:

• Voyages - search for particular voyages in this database of documented slaving expedictions. Lists, tables, charts, and maps can be created using information from the database.


• Estimates - this database offers an interactive feature to help you to analyze the full volume and multiple routes of the slave trade.


• Images - this database is a collection of digitised maps, manuscripts, paintings, sketches, and photographs of people, places, and vessels. Many of these also link to related voyage records.


• African names - this database identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.