Apr 2015
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35.000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Database is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world.
The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is the principal sponsor of the project, and it is an Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative.
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. See the project’s website.
Read about slaves and slavery in Portuguese and English HCS-Manguinhos:
Read, Ian. A triumphant decline?: Tetanus among slaves and freeborn in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2012, vol.19, suppl.1, p.107-132. ISSN 0104-5970
Kodama, Kaori et al. Slave mortality during the cholera epidemic in Rio de Janeiro (1855-1856): a preliminary analysis. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2012, vol.19, suppl.1, p.59-79. ISSN 0104-5970
Kodama, Kaori. Antislavery and epidemic Mathieu François Maxime Audouard’s “O tráfico dos negros considerado como a causa da febre amarela” and the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1850. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2009, vol.16, no.2, p.515-520. ISSN 0104-5970
Pôrto, Ângela. The healthcare system for slaves in nineteenth-century Brazil: disease, institutions, and treatment practices. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2006, vol.13, no.4, p.1019-1027. ISSN 0104-5970
