The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

This year is the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire. There are a lot of exhibitions and events taking place around London at the moment. Here is a timely new resources from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (btw. this is just the database files you download).

The database is freely downloadable from the AHDS.

The trans-Atlantic slave trade remains a major field of academic enquiry and public interest. This new database of over 34,000 slaving voyages is the largest single resource of information available for the study of pre-colonial African history and a major asset for the study of Atlantic history and race relations.Deposited

by Professor Philip Richardson of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, the database builds on previously published information resulting from three decades of work from numerous scholars. It has just been made available via AHDS History.TheThe

The new enlarged database includes information on some 7,000 previously unknown voyages and additional information relating to over 10,000 voyages. The resource provides details of the itineraries and characteristics of ships involved ttrade.It.It.

It also covers the human dimension, including information such as the numbers of slaves embarked in Africa and disembarked in the Americas and the owners and crews of the ships involved ttraffic.It.It.

It provides details of the geography of the trade, notably ports of provenance and return of ships, trading destinations in Africa, and ports of slave embarkation in the Americas, together with the time schedules involved in completing the various phases of voyages. The database comprises voyages of British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese (including Brazilian), Spanish aorigin.TheThe

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A revised and enlarged database 1500-1867